What if you hook your time capsul to someone else's computer and run time machine on there's? will you loose your back up? On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> A time machine backup will live in the folder Backups.backupdb when backups > are run locally. When run over a network Time Machine creates a disk image > called ComputerName.sparseimage which seems to be one giant file. > > CB > > Jonathan Cohn wrote: >> I am fairly certain that Time Machine places all the backup >> information into a very specific directory on your back-up drive. If >> this is the case, and if this directory does not exist on your Primary >> disk then you should be OK. >> >> I know that Carbon Copy can co-exist if it is run first. Perhaps you >> want to get a coppy of the take Control book on backups. Take control >> books are 50% off this week. >> >> (Read the instructions in Tidbits.com for how to get the discount). >> >> Jon >> [And no, I get no kickbacks from the Tidbits / Take Control group, I >> have just found them always to be useful and current] >> >> >> On 21/07/2010, Chris Blouch >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> I didn't see any replies to this yet. I haven't used carbon copy cloner. >>> Does it make it's backup into a single file? If so you could probably >>> store that on the 1TB drive. That said, Time Machine's backup folder >>> simply stores incremental backups until it fills up the volume and then >>> starts deleting the oldest backups. So sooner or later that volume will >>> fill up. I just put a 2TB drive in my other machine for TM backups and >>> partitioned it into two 500GB volumes and a 1TB volume. The two 500s I >>> use for two time machine backups, my laptop over the network and the >>> local machine. Then the 1TB volume is just for general use. That seems >>> to work well. I haven't done enough re-partitioning to know if you can >>> resize or not without losing data. Even if you did, you could just run >>> another time machine backup after you're done. Chances of failure of >>> your machine at the same time that you're reconfiguring backups is >>> pretty small. Because everything should just be files on the backup >>> volume you shouldn't have anything stepping on anything. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> Mary Otten wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I have a 1 tb hard drive which is being used by time machine. But I would >>>> also really like to have a bootable back up, and I know TM does not do >>>> this. I have carbon copy cloneer, which will make bootable back ups. >>>> Question is, and perhaps its a stupid one, are the applications smart >>>> enough not to step on each others data? If the drive were partitioned, >>>> that would be an obvious way to solve the problem. But it isn't, and I've >>>> got several months worth of time machine backups on it already, so should >>>> think partitioning at this time would not be possible without data loss. >>>> is that correct? >>>> Mary >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >>> [email protected] >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >>> . >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
