Time Machine question

[SoundTheSurrender]

I want to use Time Machine but I have one question.

Is it possible to use it to back up stuff that I don't want on my Macbook?

I have a lot of ROMS that I just want to keep but I don't need it on my Macbook, just the Time Machine Backup.

Is that possible?

 

[TheStu]

If you simply transfer those ROMs to your Time Machine drive then there they will sit until the drive dies.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Alright thanks.

 

[Injury]

Yup, you can just make a separate folder on the drive for your ROMs and if you keep any on your macbook, you can exclude that folder from being backed up since you already have a backup of them.

I do this with all of my media files and to keep the size of the backups short and small and I manually back up any files for projects I'm working on so it doesn't have 30-40 iterations of files I already have different versions of.