Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Rhet Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-02-14 15.58 I would never use a backup solution that didn't run on live data. Thankfully the days of "they system is down for backup" are long gone. Whether I use Time Machine or I use Super Duper or Chronosync or something else, I'm certainly not about to ta

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread TjL
On 2/14/08, Patrick Woolsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TjL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: > > >It also, I would assume, is why .Mac fails to sync Yojimbo so often. > >Instead of syncing 1,000 small files, it is trying to sync one > >monolithic DB. [...] > > That's not the case; although .Mac must u

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Patrick Woolsey
TjL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: >It also, I would assume, is why .Mac fails to sync Yojimbo so often. >Instead of syncing 1,000 small files, it is trying to sync one >monolithic DB. [...] That's not the case; although .Mac must ultimately contain your whole data set before syncing between machines

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread TjL
On 2/14/08, Rhet Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Curious, why is this bad? > > 1. Backup...the entire DB file (mine is hundreds of MB) needs to be > backed up. I backup everyday, both to external drive and offsite. > That means the large Yojimbo file needs to be backed up every day, > t

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Rhet Turnbull
> Curious, why is this bad? 1. Backup...the entire DB file (mine is hundreds of MB) needs to be backed up. I backup everyday, both to external drive and offsite. That means the large Yojimbo file needs to be backed up every day, taking up unnecessary bandwidth and disk space. 2. Data integrity...

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Kenneth Kirksey
On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Rhet Turnbull wrote: I hope that BareBones and/or Apple gets this fixed soon. Requiring the user to have two separate backup plans is unacceptable. For me it hasn't been that big of a deal. 1) I excluded my Yojimbo DB from my time machine backups 2) I set up a f

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Rhet Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08-02-14 15.09 Then again, Yojimbo's habit of storing everything in a monolithic database has been one of my (few) critiques since Yojimbo was released. Curious, why is this bad? I hope that BareBones and/or Apple gets this fixed soon. Requiring the user to

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Rhet Turnbull
I was unaware of the restriction regarding Yojimbo and Time Machine. Fortunately I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet (but had planned to do so now that the 10.5.2 update is out and in fact have the Leopard box sitting on my shelf). Time Machine was one of the driving reasons for me to upgrade to Leo

Re: On Yojimbo and Time Machine

2008-02-14 Thread Patrick Woolsey
"Niels Kobschaetzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: >On Oct 31, 2007 5:03 PM, Steve Kalkwarf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Before things get too far out of control, I want to clarify some >> facts about how Time Machine and Yojimbo. >> >> Yojimbo is built on CoreData, the same underlying technology as >