Happy/unhappy users of Time Machine please post

[Bobbi Flekman]

It's a bit of a difficult question. Am I a happy user of of Time Machine? I am an undecided user. I checked "Working Appropriately" as it seems to be doing its job. But I will be a happy user when I have to use it and restore something. And unhappy when I find out the restore fails.

It's just as with other precautions, you just hope you don't have to use them. Or do you go: "Whoah.... I hope my house burns down" after you signed an insurance policy for it.

 

[Viremia]

TM worked just fine, as advertised, while I used it. However, once SuperDuper became completely Leopard compatible, I turned it off and don't plan to use it any more because SD fits my needs more (and doesn't hog up my HD as much)

 

[snagitseven]

For those that may have issues with Time Machine locking up, stuck on "preparing backup" or other issues, I solved mine by repairing permissions on the boot drive and restarting. I also deleted the "..inprogress.. file on the TM drive. Everything went back to normal and the backup went quickly.

 

[wordmunger]

It's working as advertised, but I checked "major problem" because it doesn't back up my iDisk. Since I keep most of my most important files on iDisk, this is a pretty major problem in my book. At some point I'm going to have to consider getting rid of .mac entirely.

 

[DaveF]

Used it this week to to recover some photos that mysteriously got deleted from iPhoto. While I plan to add SuperDuper to my backup process, TimeMachine demonstrated its value in letting me quickly restore a handful of photos.

 

[aross99]

It works for me, I just wish I could use my AirDisk with it...

 

[::Lisa::]

Absolutely fine for me. MBP with a 320GB Seagate Ext HDD.

 

[tuxtpenguin]

I have a Drobo and TM works pretty well. Occasional errors about backup failed due to blah, blah; but I click Run Backup Now and it will work just fine the next time.

 

[~J~]

I would say Im a happy user. Had one little glitch with it right after I updated to 10.5.2 - it would literally take 20 min+ to prepare my backup for only ~100MB. But now its back down to normal preparing & backup times.

MBP wireless backups to CMS 500GB FW400 drive