If running from the BIAB hard drive, you can include that in a Time Machine backup through the Options menu in Time Machine. This lets you include or exclude folders or drives as you like. If you use 10TB drives in your backups as I do, the Ultra Pack takes up little space relatively.

OTOH, since everything in the Ultra Pack is downloadable from your user account, no real reason to include it in Time Machine or other backup.

The only reasons to move the Real Tracks and Drums folders (as I do) to an external is if moving them to an SSD. There's a slight but noticeable speed bump. In my case, I don't like my desk being cluttered with external HDDs when I can move Komplete, BIAB Audiophile (RT and Drums only) and most of my other VIs onto a single 4TB SSD.

I run the installer so that everything else is sitting on my System drive.


BIAB 2023 Audiophile, 24/60 Core M2 Mac Studio Ultra/8TB/192GB Sonoma, M1 MBAir, 2012 MBP
Digital Performer 11, LogicPro
Finale27.4, Dorico5, Encore5, SmartScorePro64, Notion6, Overture5