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Time Machine Backup External Drive

Since its release in October of 2008, Mac OS X’s time machine backup feature has been a popular way for users to protect their data. The time machine backup utility creates incremental backups of a user’s files, allowing them to restore files from any given point in time. 

One limitation of the time machine backup feature is that it can only store backups on the computer’s internal hard drive. This can present a problem if the internal hard drive fails …