Time Machine gray on external drive

Hello

I understand that starting with OS X Yosemite, it was possible to include an external drive for your Time Machine backup. To be clear, I don't speak _to_ an external backup drive, I am just talking like an external drive connected to always be part of your saved content.

I understand default external drives are excluded from the list, but we can count them by selecting them in Time Machine preferences by clicking on the "-" to remove it from the exclusions list. However, I have an external hard drive where I can't.

I suspect that this is because it is in the format ExFAT but wanted to confirm. Does anyone know the technical details about this?

As far as I know Time Machine do not save to the format ExFAT drives.

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