Re: [sussex_mug] How big?

[Graham Street]

The recommendation, most places I looked, was to exclude Parallels from the TM backup. So, that's what I've done. Every time you run it and use Windows (or whatever opsys used), the Parallels files change and you'll be adding them to the TM disk on every backup. Its easy enough to copy/secure the Parallels files to a separate external drive manually. Graham on 30/12/2009 09:55 Rob Beattie sent the following: Far as I remember Time Machine does back up Parallels and all who sail in her.  Rob Sent from my iPhone On 30 Dec 2009, at 09:52, Russell Brown <drbrown1...@gmail.com> wrote: Morning Smuggers I'm in the process of upgrading my macbook's hard drive (from 80gb to 500gb) so I'll need a new ext HDD for back up. Given the size of the new HDD and the fact that I will probably be lazy and use TimeMachine for back up, how big should I go? Is 500GB enough or should I go for 1TB? Additionally, I'll be installing Parallels and Windows (flavour yet to be decided). Does anyone know if TimeMachine backs up any data for that as well by default? Thanks Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.lmcs.info/ Tel 01372389271 ---------------------------------------------------------- Have your say about NHS market reforms Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to s...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.