My apologies to all who contributed to this thread for not having answered the mails, but: I was unfortunately not able to go to Internet for quite a few weeks, but nevertheless, many thanks for all the help. Rudolf
Am 07.06.2013 um 03.59 schrieb steve harley: > on 2013-06-05 14:30 Rudolf O. Durrer wrote >> Well, I'm not very familiar with Time Machine and the impact it may have to >> the other work when using "only" USB 2. > > another thought: once you've got your initial full backup completed, the big > impact from Time Machine is not usually the transfer to the backup drive, but > the analysis it does of your files to decide what needs to be backed up; in > my case, even in the middle of the night every hour it finds 2-3000 files > that have changed and takes 1.5 minutes, daytime it's often 4-5 minutes > (spinning 750GB drive, quad i7 MBP, USB2 backup drive) > > the bigger/slower your drive and the more files, and perhaps the slower the > processor or the fewer cores, the more this can bog down the user experience > while Time Machine does its work > > (it's dumbfounding to me that the OS & services create so many file changes > per hour) > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
