Marta,
If you are asking about backing up to a firewire drive using Time
Machine, yes it will back up the changes.
If you are talking about your own folder creation and wanting to back
it to iDisk I don't know how that can be accomplished without you
manually doing it for the items I sent below say that using the BACKUP
(another program Apple has in addition to Time Machine) program will
copy your HOME folder to a disk or CD or DVD, not to the iDisk.
Inside the preferences for Time machine they don't offer the iDisk as
a choice so you will get your changes made only if you are backing up
to a local drive.
John, you are so sweet, thank you for all that info,
actually,though, what I am really asking is this: so I have a
file : Activities on my desktop and have it backed up. Will the next
time the back up comes around only back up what has changed in that
file should I take out stuff or add more stuff on my desktop?
On the current backup it would remove the folder or items within the
folder that you had made the changes, but if later you decided you
needed it back you would go back in time to the date prior to
removal. I am sure it is recording only the changes for if it
duplicated everything every day we would need more firewire drives
than your home could hold.
That is the one thing, the other is folders: So I have a documents
folder with all kinds of stuff in it which does change, usually gets
items changed. Does it then compare, take items out etc or does it
replace the folder altogether, those are the things that I am
confronting. The other stuff I have been doing forever, even the
iDisk stuff, I only did the iDisk manually, because of my ever
changing desk top and documents folder.
This is right, doing it manually is what you'll need to do if you want
an offsite storage. I tried to backup some huge recordings, several
Gig., iDisk choked to death and I had to reboot to get it to stop
trying.
John
And I did have a Lacie to do the regular back-ups. Now I do the time
machine
And the "Back to my Mac" is a feature I have not explored
Marta
On Aug 7, 2008, at 8:29 , Profile wrote:
Marta,
And incidentally, I asked about this iDisk the other day, what it
actually automatically synchs, and when I have to give it a
shove. Nobody took my question up. There must be people doing
iDisk, no?
Marta
Inside Preferences the MobileMe icon has four tabs, Account, Sync,
iDisk and Back To My Mac. Inside iDisk you have the choices as to
how you want your public folder utilized (what permissions you want
to give and if you want it password protected). The other choice
is to do the backup Automatically or manually, the default is
automatic.
Then going to the "sync" tab here you get to check what it is you
want to backup "automatically" to MobileMe, your choice it's a
cafeteria. From then on the items checked will be backed to to
the iDisk.
If you have a full functioning MobileMe account (not a demo or
trial) then you can download from your software folder the "Backup"
app. This will allow you to have yet other functions of backing
up important items automatically. The list includes:
1. Backing up your home folder (to a hard disk or CD, or DVD & not
to the iDisk) (Monthly)
2. Backing up your personal settings such as address book,
contacts, stickies notes, iCal calendars, Safari settings and
keychains. Done daily and it is to the iDisk (Daily)
3. iLife is the third choice, it is backed up to your hard drive,
CD, or DVD and not to the iDisk. (Weekly)
4. iTunes Library and all files in the iTunes folder to a CD or
DVD and not to the iDisk. (Monthly)
John
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