On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Dan wrote:
> > At 12:14 AM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: >> I use Time Machine with 24 hours backup intervals with 1.5 TB >> External nowadays... > > Have you had any problems with Time Machine? I've been running it since I updated to 10.5 and haven't hand more than minor issues. Occasionally I'd get the error that the media was read-only; unmounting, unplugging, then remounting my (USB-based) Time Machine volume would fix it; I think it's a bit of flakiness in the WD MyBook case. I've done or witnesses two complete restores form TM, and both proceeded flawlessly. The main issue was TM just bogging things down every hour on the hour, I reset it to run every 6 hours and life's been a lot smoother since then: <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200710291721156> I also have the advantage of being able to exclude some of the most volatile directories, like ~/Library/Mail because we run an IMAP server, my mail doesn't live on my system, and I excluded the cache directories. I don't know if TM does that automatically, but I figured an explicit exclusion couldn't hurt. I also keep it from backing up my Virtual Machine directory (for Fusion); I'll make a manual copy of the VM file when Fusion isn't when I make major changes to it, but ther'es no need to back up a 20 or 30 gb file every day. If you have scratch directories for Photoshop and the like, exclude those as well. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
