Time machine does an incremental backup and only adds changes. so your safe.
what i found funny though is that if you encrypt using file vault and use time machine you cannot restore individual files you have to restore everything ! Ray On Thursday, February 19, 2009, at 11:02PM, "Gareth McMillan" <[email protected]> wrote: >I believe its intelligent. >A package is just a folder. If you open iphoto and hit the TM button you >can go back though iphoto with the TM interface. > >There should be no reason it backs up the whole thing. > >To be sure you can always make a chance to iphoto, then manually run a >backup, and see what size it does > >On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> does anyone know whether TM backs up the entire package each >> time you add a photo? My iPhoto package is about 8 gigs and I >> add a few pictures of the kids each week....but don't really >> want to start weeding out old backups if it's managing to do it >> incrementally. If it's just slapping the whole package into the >> archive and copying again, it's going to cripple my TM space... >> >> >> > >> > >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
