On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > We have a number of new iMacs in a lab, and each has a TimeMachine drive > connected to it. We're noticing that TimeMachine seems to be backing up only > when a user is logged in. If a user logs out and another user logs in, the > first user's account never gets backed up. I've verified this by ssh'ing into > the machine and looking at the output of df. When a user is logged in, the > TimeMachine drive is mounted. When no user is logged in, the drive isn't > mounted. Surely this isn't the way TimeMachine is supposed to work. Is there > a setting for this somewhere? >
I was not aware of this, either. I can't explain the part about certain users' accounts not being backed up, but it seems that the lack of backups when no one is logged in goes back a ways. I found this by Googling and it presents a solution to that problem that involves editing a single preferences file. Perhaps it will help you: http://systemsboy.com/2008/04/time-machine-after-logout.html Matt_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
