Has anyone used the mac backup?  Time Machine?

It's simple, but the interface is slick!!!

Very slick!!  So slick that my wife who is a complete noob backs up her
computer from time to time to her portable hard drive.

On the other hand, I think Time Capsule is pretty dumb!!

Single hard drive = EPIC FAIL!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 3:36 PM
To: hardware
Subject: Re: [H] Win7 Super Long Backups?

I don't have a ton of experience with Win7 backups but I think the first
time it takes a lot longer than it does afterwards (or at least it
should).
This is because the first time it copies everything, whereas each
successive
time it should only copy those files which have changed.   So unless a
large
portion of that 350GB is constantly changing, future backups should be
fine.

It also might make a difference if you have a lot of small files in the
backup.

---------------------------
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US


On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Gee Whiz....I have about 350 GB to back up to an external USB HD.
Win7 is
> working on this now for over 12 hours!  Still only at 78% done.  Was
worse
> when I let it do an image too...so bad that I had to cancel that and
start
> over.
>
> Is this right?
>

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