2 Mac's - 1 backup drive
 

Just bought Super Duper a while back and have had remarkable success. Nothing easier or more intuitive.

I just bought an iMac in addition to my MacBook Pro and have a 300 gig Maxtor One Touch. The laptop is backed up routinely.

How can I back up my iMac on the same backupdrive? I have plenty of space left to back up the new computer.

Is it possible? Seems like Super Duper always wants to replace everything.

John

You should partition the destination drive into two volumes: one for each source Mac. Then, direct each source drive to its corresponding destination.

Make sense?

I had planned on partioning as a last resort. I won't shell out $45 for a non destructive utility when I can do it for free by blasting the drive, splitting it and doing two backups.

I do hate to kill a perfectly good up to date backup.

Thanks, I figured I'd have to go this route. Not tonight. For the next rainy day. Anyway there is nothing on the new iMac that isn't on the laptop.

John

The other way is to store two backups in images on the same partition, but you'd still need to get rid of the existing backup, so I don't think it'll help.

Of course, you can also get a 2nd drive for the other Mac. They're pretty cheap these days... $100 or so for a 300GB drive...