# Time Machine My Book Essential External Hard Drive

**URL:** <https://forums.sandisk.com/t/time-machine-my-book-essential-external-hard-drive/336001>\
**Category:** External SSD for macOS\
**Created:** [September 17, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/time-machine-my-book-essential-external-hard-drive/336001 "2013-09-17T21:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![neilheatherwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@neilheatherwill](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/neilheatherwill)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/time-machine-my-book-essential-external-hard-drive/336001/1 "2013-09-17T21:53:20Z")

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I’m using a WD My Book LIve to back up to, using Time Machine. &nbsp;I also have a WD My Book Essential drive holding the majority of my documents, music and photos. &nbsp;Time Machine excludes backing up the My Book Esssential Hard Drive. &nbsp;Can I fix this?

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**Author:** ![John012](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@John012](https://forums.sandisk.com/u/John012)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.sandisk.com/t/time-machine-my-book-essential-external-hard-drive/336001/2 "2013-09-18T15:32:11Z")

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Not.

Time Machine is setup to backup your computer no other external sources.

You can manually backup the files on the My Book or try using another software.

For additional information you can go to:

[http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427](http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427)