{"id":1933,"date":"2016-06-19T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T10:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stillaslife.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2016-06-19T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T10:39:18","slug":"need-to-add-an-external-hard-drive-to-your-mac-time-machine-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/need-to-add-an-external-hard-drive-to-your-mac-time-machine-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to add an external hard drive to your Mac Time Machine backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve moved my <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> onto an external hard drive because it&#8217;s just too big to store all the files I use regularly on my local hard drive. However, I like to keep a local backup in addition to the <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> backup, so I wanted to add it to my Time Machine which has more than enough room for the extra drive. Here&#8217;s how I did it in 50 seconds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"How To: Add An External Hard Drive To A Mac Time Machine Backup\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrzGO2DFYUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve moved my Dropbox onto an external hard drive because it&#8217;s just too big to store all the files I use regularly on my local hard drive. However, I like to keep a local backup in addition to the Dropbox backup, so I wanted to add it to my Time Machine which has more than &#8230; <a title=\"Need to add an external hard drive to your Mac Time Machine backup?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/zh\/need-to-add-an-external-hard-drive-to-your-mac-time-machine-backup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Need to add an external hard drive to your Mac Time Machine backup?\">\u9605\u8bfb\u66f4\u591a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wordproof_timestamp":false},"categories":[9,134],"tags":[61,273,1000,24],"country":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}