Open the System Preferences, choose Backblaze and click on Settings. Set Backblaze to backup the newly created drive Navigate to your Time Machine drive, and select all the files and folders, except Backups.backupdb.Ĭopy them to your newly created Data drive and delete the originals from the Time Machine drive.Ĩ. Quit Disk Utility and switch to the Finder. Click 'Partition' to confirm the changes 7. Click the plus sign to add a new partition You can also type in a specific size in the Size field.ĥ. You can slide it all the way up to the light blue area, or a lesser portion if you'd like.

Drag the resize slider upwards to resize the Time Machine partition Note: Make sure to select the drive itself, not just the Time Machine volume.Ĥ. Select the drive that contains your Time Machine volume Turn Time Machine off.ĭisk Utility can easily be found via Spotlight, but it's located in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilityģ. Open the System Preferences and choose Time Machine. Make sure any important files have been copied to another disk on your computer as well for safekeeping. WARNING: These instructions involve making major changes to the structure of an external hard drive. (Note: You can also simply turn off Time Machine, and delete the Time Machine data, allowing the drive to backed up to Backblaze). The storage drive can be backed up to Backblaze. If you'd like to back up that drive to Backblaze, you can split the drive in to two partitions, one for Time Machine, the other for storage. The drive will be listed in Backblaze's 'Select Hard Drives to Backup' as Time Machine and will not be selectable. To avoid duplicating data, Backblaze will not back up any drive that contains Time Machine data on it.

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