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Time Machine FAQ
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Apparently. Kinda lame. I was planning to do that. Now I have to have a drive plugged into my MBP and I hate wires
Separate Music and Videos?
Anyone know if you can tell Time Machine to back up your iTunes music but not your iTunes videos? This would save me 60 GB of external hard drive space!
I've ripped all my favorite movies off onto my hard drive and I obviously still own the physical DVDs so I'm not particularly worried about the video files.
Anyone know if you can tell Time Machine to back up your iTunes music but not your iTunes videos? This would save me 60 GB of external hard drive space!
I've ripped all my favorite movies off onto my hard drive and I obviously still own the physical DVDs so I'm not particularly worried about the video files.
Has anyone been able to find out if it can backup to a SMB/NFS share? All my household backups are done to my wk3 box. I would love for it to be done via Time Machine as it makes for a really great restore means, but I must be able to send everything to the server.
In the last seed, you were able to backup over SMB and Airport. However, in the final release they removed the support for it. I have no idea why and I am still trying a bunch of things to make this work.
Needless to say, Apple totally screwed up my plans to make things easier on my self.
The touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported doesn't appear to work anymore.
Needless to say, Apple totally screwed up my plans to make things easier on my self.
The touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported doesn't appear to work anymore.
As long as its formated as HFS+ then yes. It will create a directory for all the snapshots. Just don't play with those snapshots manually, even if you run low on space. Also, don't touch any . files in the root directory of the filesystem.
Back up drive question
I'm planning to install Leopard and start using Time Machine this Saturday (darn my Friday night work schedule!), and I have a couple of questions regarding my back up HDD.
First of all, I'm wondering about how much space Time Machine will take up on that drive. Is 80GB going to be large enough? Also, I have other things backed up on that drive from my old PC... will Time Machine completely take over the drive and delete what's already on it? Will I be able to still use it to back up other devices?
Also, I'm not one to leave my external HDD on all the time. Am I going to need to try and remember to turn on the HDD every time I turn on my Macbook Pro for Time Machine to work correctly?
Thank you in advance for the help!
Lindsay
I'm planning to install Leopard and start using Time Machine this Saturday (darn my Friday night work schedule!), and I have a couple of questions regarding my back up HDD.
First of all, I'm wondering about how much space Time Machine will take up on that drive. Is 80GB going to be large enough? Also, I have other things backed up on that drive from my old PC... will Time Machine completely take over the drive and delete what's already on it? Will I be able to still use it to back up other devices?
Also, I'm not one to leave my external HDD on all the time. Am I going to need to try and remember to turn on the HDD every time I turn on my Macbook Pro for Time Machine to work correctly?
Thank you in advance for the help!
Lindsay
Just off the phone with Apple Care
Issue
MacBook Pro home office, Mac Mini bedroom, apple TV, Air Port Extreme & an external 500GB connected to my airport extreme.
I have been reading how I will need to partitions this and that or maybe create 3 partitions one for each computer and then one for my iTunes content that goes to my apple TV.
Just got off the phone with Apple care and I was told you do need to partition anything differently for multiple mac's running a external HD on an extreme.
TM will take care of everything!!! they said REMEMBER it was designed to be simple.
Issue
MacBook Pro home office, Mac Mini bedroom, apple TV, Air Port Extreme & an external 500GB connected to my airport extreme.
I have been reading how I will need to partitions this and that or maybe create 3 partitions one for each computer and then one for my iTunes content that goes to my apple TV.
Just got off the phone with Apple care and I was told you do need to partition anything differently for multiple mac's running a external HD on an extreme.
TM will take care of everything!!! they said REMEMBER it was designed to be simple.
yes
The gent I was talking with was on IM with someone in the Sacramento Apple office she only let him ask one of my questions. It does appear the at least in my set up TM will take care of the rest. I was then told if you do have any other questions I would need to call back tomorrow.
The gent I was talking with was on IM with someone in the Sacramento Apple office she only let him ask one of my questions. It does appear the at least in my set up TM will take care of the rest. I was then told if you do have any other questions I would need to call back tomorrow.
Apple took out that ability to save on SMB? Now the .com.apple.timemachine.supported doesn't work either. What are they thinking.
No SMB volumes period.
Well crap. Just read Engadget and they confirm, no TM for SMB period. They got the info from Apple. So much for companies with a creative department on Macs being able to use TM for their backups on NAS drives using SMB/CIFS.
Well crap. Just read Engadget and they confirm, no TM for SMB period. They got the info from Apple. So much for companies with a creative department on Macs being able to use TM for their backups on NAS drives using SMB/CIFS.
So basically if I buy Leopard I'll have a useless SimpleShare NAS drive. Awesome! Thanks a lot Apple.
So... If I have a unsupported dual G4 that I can not "technically" install Leopard on, will Time Machine be able to back up to it over a network?
Apple's specs on TM say that the backup machine needs to be running Leopard.
"Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices."
But I've read from other sites that it works over AFP. However no one qualified if the remote disk was working off a Leopard installed OS.
Apple's specs on TM say that the backup machine needs to be running Leopard.
"Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices."
But I've read from other sites that it works over AFP. However no one qualified if the remote disk was working off a Leopard installed OS.
Not a chance. That "all features are subject to change" gets them out of anything like that. Not their fault that people purchased other products based on features that weren't set in stone and clearly advertised as such.
Multiple User Profiles on one iMac-- TM?
Hi, I could not find comments about this...
How does TM work with multiple users on my iMac... do I need to set up each user separately? Will it then copy all apps in addition to each home folder/prefs for each user? Will that change the space requirements.... I have a few separate users! Thanks.
Hi, I could not find comments about this...
How does TM work with multiple users on my iMac... do I need to set up each user separately? Will it then copy all apps in addition to each home folder/prefs for each user? Will that change the space requirements.... I have a few separate users! Thanks.
Without having any idea whether this is correct or not, I would assume that it just copies everything over and gives access based on what user you're logged in as. Copying the entire HD 6 times for 6 different users wouldn't make much sense.
I didnt read through this whole thread to see if this was answered, so Im going to ask again.
Lets say you have some files on your hdd that you DONT want backed up. Once TM makes an archive of those how can you get rid of those from that archive? As an example, lets say there was some porn on your computer and TM made a backup. How would you go about getting that removed from that backup in TM? Not that I would ever have any porn
edit - found the answer at another forum. You can use the action button on the finder window to delete single backups or an entire backup history of something. Say there was a jpg called Picture 1 in your documents folder yesterday and it was backed up in TM. Open TM, go to yesterday, select that file, hit the action dropdown menu, and delete. Pretty cool. Im sure alot of people already knew this, but its new to me
Lets say you have some files on your hdd that you DONT want backed up. Once TM makes an archive of those how can you get rid of those from that archive? As an example, lets say there was some porn on your computer and TM made a backup. How would you go about getting that removed from that backup in TM? Not that I would ever have any porn
edit - found the answer at another forum. You can use the action button on the finder window to delete single backups or an entire backup history of something. Say there was a jpg called Picture 1 in your documents folder yesterday and it was backed up in TM. Open TM, go to yesterday, select that file, hit the action dropdown menu, and delete. Pretty cool. Im sure alot of people already knew this, but its new to me
I'm sorry I've tried to read as much of the thread as possible but I'm coming up blank:
I want to backup using TimeMachine to a AFP share on a different computer. I connect to the share through finder, yet it's not showing up in the TM preferences as a place to backup to. I'm connected via Airport, but this is NOT an Airport Extreme drive -- it's an entirely separate computer with a HFS+ partition.
What am I doing wrong?
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EDIT: The remote machine is a G3 running Tiger, is this an issue?
I want to backup using TimeMachine to a AFP share on a different computer. I connect to the share through finder, yet it's not showing up in the TM preferences as a place to backup to. I'm connected via Airport, but this is NOT an Airport Extreme drive -- it's an entirely separate computer with a HFS+ partition.
What am I doing wrong?
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EDIT: The remote machine is a G3 running Tiger, is this an issue?