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Now Time Machine will back up both my internal drive as well as the external one to the NAS drive I have connected to the network. If your external hard drive is there and you want to back it up, remove it from the list by clicking on the minus button and then Save. Time Machine will start backing up your hard drive.

You'll need to do this immediately after clicking Restart Now and hold them until the recovery screen appears.

Here, you’ll find a list of hard drives that have been excluded from your Time Machine backups. Click Select Backup Disk and then select the USB drive as your backup location. in the drop-down menu, and click Restart Now when prompted.

Next, you’ll need to click on Options… button at the bottom.

Once you’re in, click on Select Disk to pick the hard drive you want to save your backups to.

Find the Time Machine icon (near the bottom) and click on it.

Head over to your Mac’s System Preferences menu, the cog icon found on your Mac’s dock For macOS Mojave and above, make sure you grant the Terminal Utility Full Disk Access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.

Of course, as with any important files, I like to make sure they’re safely backed up! That’s why I’ve started using Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature to back up not only the internal drive, but my external drive too.

It frees my Mac’s internal storage and allows me to grab the drive if I ever want to work away from my desk. It seems they formatted the drive to the Mac format, but I have no way to access the data, at least I think I saw there were ways to view and copy the data from the drive to my computer using third party software, but there. Even though my Mac Mini has 250GB of very fast SSD storage, I rely on my external Brinell SSD to store my large video files. I had information from a broken Mac backed up at Best Buy, but because my Mac broke, now I only have a Windows computer.