On my sawtooth, I have a 320GB SATA (plugged into a USB 2.0 PCI Card) drive plugged in for my time machine backups, and I really have to constantly delete my backups, because I copied some of my data on it one day and I had around 290.8GB free. The next day I woke up, The drive only had 187.9GB free and it was full of backups!
Here are some tips for time machine: 1) NEVER use a small sized drive for backups, or your drive will fill up quite quickly. My recommendation is at least what I have, 320GB. The more, the better. 2) Don't always delete old backups, because you might have an old copy of a file you really might need 3) Don't share the same drive as the backup drive on the network, so nobody can access your data unless you need to, or you trust them. 4) If the hard drive is large enough, try backing up copies of other computers who aren't so lucky as to having a large hard drive. -- Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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
