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Its partionied so I have one space for photos and videos and then another section for time machine back up.

My question is this, When I get a new Mac, I highlight and eject the two icons for the hard drive (one of media and one for time machine) on my desk top.

When I plug this back into a new Mac, will the new Mac recognize the the hard drive is partitioned for a time machine back up or will I have to do something for that to work Also, is there a chance I will lose anything on my external hard drive when I eject or plug it back in Thanks.

Owen.

Never use your backup drive to store things like photos and videos.

Didnt know that. So you are saying I should have two ex hard drives set up.

He has a more recent article recommending the 3-2-1 strategy.

A 3-3-3 strategy would be a best case strategy when possible.

One thing the article doesnt mention is the deterioration of the signal on magnetic disks and SSDs in long term storage.

If kept in long term storage they need to be read occasionally to refresh the signal.

My understanding is that tape signals are less subject to deterioration, but couldnt find any supporting data.

It has been well over a year since I replacedrefreshed my bank backup disks.

For consumer level and not using magnetic (HDDtape) or SSD (uh) or cloud, seems like optical Blu-ray Recordable is a good choice.

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Get a new hard drive dedicated to backup only for your new mac.

Either one that is (a) the same size as new hard drive and use a cloner program (CCC, SuperDuper etc), or (b) one that is at least double you new hard drive and use that for Time Machine.

Or do both (a) and (b).

Make sure these options are set to run automatically, as the thing that always fails here is humans forgetting to do it.

Dont store you actual primary data and a backup of it on the same physical drive.

Also use a cloud backup service, or some other way to get your data offsite, if you dont want to take the (small) risk of losing everything in a total house theftfire etc.

Personally I do a mix of 1 (a) plus 1 (b) and a limited about of 2 with most vital stuff.

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