On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
>>> On my Mac Pro at home, Time Machine runs for about 30 minutes of each hour,
>>> even when I have not created any new files.
>> Do you have any large SQL databases (e.g., MailSteward)? I discovered that
>> just SEARCHING an SQL database marks the entire dataset as "modified" and to
>> be backed up.
> If you are backing up running databases (of most any flavor) with
> TimeMachine then you are almost certainly doing it wrong. There is a
> not-small-enough chance that you will get a corrupt file out of your backup.
> And bad backups are worse than no backups.
Not sure how you leapt from the premise of "maybe this is what's causing your
backup to run long every time" to "I recommend this as the proper way to back
up SQL databases."
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