On 21-Jul-2010, at 20:40, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > > On 21/07/2010, at 2:19 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > >> So the best way for me would be to tell Time Machine to use network >> format on a local drive. > > And the best way to do this (AFAIK), is to set it up as a remote/network > drive first of all. Probably don't even have to do a backup just create it > (set it up) but if you do, you can stop the backup once it has started etc. > > Then move the drive locally and it will use the sparsebundle for a local > backup (AFAIK). > >> Ideally, Apple would use one format (sparsebundle) for both. Sadly, ... > > Hopefully not. I've found sparsebundle to be much more problematic that the > local format, with regards to corruption etc. Not that this is a problem of > the format itself (AFAIK).
My Documents folder is a link to a folder on an encrypted sparse bundle. I've been using it for a few years without issue. -- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
