>>> it's apparent that backup software is not going to know or care whether you >>> are communicating with a network backup device via wireless or via an >>> ethernet cable, and the cable will be faster (especially if your device >>> does gigabit). >> >> Time machine does know, and it does care, and it stores the backups >> completely differently if they are local or networked. > > Wow, slow that knee down, willya? I didn't say local or networked -- I said > networked over wireless or networked over an ethernet cable.
Alright, what I asked originally was: But initial backups of big disks over wireless are slow. Is there any way on 10.5.8 to hook a drive up locally, and use the network format of backup? Whether I am using wireless or wired doesn't matter. Networked drive access is slower than local. Wireless will be slower than wired, but for my setup, wired isn't practical. Moving a USB drive is practical. So the best way for me would be to tell Time Machine to use network format on a local drive. From what I understand, 10.6.3 does support this (you can copy a local backup into a sparsebundle, and the network form of backup will use that happily). 10.5.8 apparently does not (at least, as far as I can tell from reading forums elsewhere on the internet.) Ideally, Apple would use one format (sparsebundle) for both. Sadly, ... _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
