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Do You Use Time Machine?
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I ran it for a while, but turned it off. I have better things to do with my external drive than have my computer backing up to it. I already have another copy of most of my files stored on another drive, anyway. Seems silly to have a third.
i would, but i want to get a new external just for back-up. My external i use now has my FCP stuff on it.
I see way too many Leopard users make posts about deleting files or folders.
I have backups back to November.
I have backups back to November.
I see way too many Leopard users make posts about deleting files or folders.
I have backups back to November.
Same here, I had backups back to 2005 until I had to clean out the drive for Time Machine. When my MBP hard drive crashed I was okay with all the files, but I got a 1TB Time Capsule for the entire house. Now two iMacs and MBP are backed up to it with no problems at all.
We have about 530GB left, but I may take the G5 iMac off and just use an external for it since it's the only one not with an "N" card and takes forever to back up.
I have, but have recently run into a problem. I just got an AEBS and connected a bigger external to it than my current Time Machine drive. I want to move all my existing backups to that drive and point TM to it to continue the current backups without losing everything done in the past months. Has anyone had any luck with this?
I do it to a network hard drive (500GB) plugged into the airport extreme router. Back ups every 4 hours. I have yet to fill up the drive with backing up both the air and the iMac.
I use a 1Tb Time Capsule and I'm not seeing any major issues. If I am running some processor intensive apps I will turn time machine off for a few hours till Im done. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
My only complaint would be I would like to control the frequency of the the backups.
My only complaint would be I would like to control the frequency of the the backups.
Interesting thread, this has been on my mind for a while. Time machine seems to slow both my machines down so I've started to lean off it. I want to be backing up everyday but until there is a solution I'm unsure. Also, I'm considereing buying a mini to run as a backup server incase my externals drop out (other than my 3 VPS located in 3 different places in the Country [ I have sensitive information]).
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
Same here. I hope that this is an option added in the 10.5.3 update. The G5 iMac may need to be backed up once every day or so.
I had the same complaint until I found this nifty app: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/
It works beautifully and stops from Time Machine having to load up every hour. I set mine to once a day and it works well - I have yet to experience any problems with it.
Hope this helps!
I use it but not constantly.
My External hard drive is half the capacity of my internal (got it because it was going cheap due to this deal of some sort) It's done it's fair share of back-ups and it does it well. Kudos to Apple with the actual back-up system. They've done that part right, definitely.
However, I don't use it constantly because:
1. My External HD's fan is louder than my iMac, so I feel my room is being filled with noise.
2. I don't need it on all the time; wastes electricity.
3. The Time Machine application buggers my MX Revolution -like Sleep does- and that's rather annoying.
My External hard drive is half the capacity of my internal (got it because it was going cheap due to this deal of some sort) It's done it's fair share of back-ups and it does it well. Kudos to Apple with the actual back-up system. They've done that part right, definitely.
However, I don't use it constantly because:
1. My External HD's fan is louder than my iMac, so I feel my room is being filled with noise.
2. I don't need it on all the time; wastes electricity.
3. The Time Machine application buggers my MX Revolution -like Sleep does- and that's rather annoying.
Absolutely
Both for my Imac and my MacBook. This weekend I upped my harddrive in the Macbook from 120Gig (I think..maybe it was 100) to 320Gig and used Time Machine to restore. It was seamless and Time Machine restored everything perfectly. IMHO, an insanely easy and useful program.
Both for my Imac and my MacBook. This weekend I upped my harddrive in the Macbook from 120Gig (I think..maybe it was 100) to 320Gig and used Time Machine to restore. It was seamless and Time Machine restored everything perfectly. IMHO, an insanely easy and useful program.
