I would say it's one of the better general backup solutions available, easy to use.
Speed of local hard disk and read/write access time of the timemachine plays a big part. Backups all have issues; how do you handle open files; how do you handle changes whilst the backup is happening; how much space will it use; do you really need hourly backups for 2 year ago or is monthly fine for 2010; how do you calculate what has change since the previous backup; Quickest is zfs, literally takes milliseconds to perform a snapshot of the current system and automatically calculates differences without any performance impact. But not many people use Solaris or BSD for home machines. John On 22 November 2013 13:41, Phil Tomlinson <[email protected]>wrote: > An interesting discussion - I very much agree with Toby. TM is excellent > as a retrieval device (and great fun to operate) but I wonder how many > people leave it "on" for automatic backup? I have stopped doing that for > about a year now. I had hoped that a new backup disk would improve its > grindingly annoying constant backing up system, but that didn't work. Also > my new backup disk (a WD MyBook) seems to dislike Time Machine Editor app. > > Phil T > > Sent from my iPad > > On 22 Nov 2013, at 13:15, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time machine for the very > reasons in this thread. I don't know if John Patricks 7 steps are exactly > what its doing, that's a horribly inefficient way of backing anything up - > but it wouldn't surprise me if its pretty close to the mark. > > Just to clarify the love/hate thing... as a RECOVERY utility time machine > is absolutely sublime. second to none, love it! The way it goes about > doing its backups could be decribed as clunky at best, but you will be so > pleased you had it working when disaster strikes and you need to get > something back from it! > > > On 22 November 2013 12:38, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Jason - I'd never heard of that app and it could well do the job. >> I've downloaded it and will give it a whirl. >> >> It's free too! >> >> >> Stephen >> >> On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:50, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:31, [email protected] wrote: >> > >> >> The backup drive is attached to the Airport Extreme which naturally >> slows things down but I was wondering if anyone here has any ideas as to >> whether there is anything I can do about the seemingly endless disk writing. >> > >> > I used TimeMachineEditor to make them less frequent as the incessant >> disk-writing noise drove me mad on my work machine (over USB). Like you, I >> found it always getting ready, doing or tidying up. My home machine (Mac >> Pro) goes to an internal drive and I don't notice it, so I think it's down >> to speed of connection. TM is obviously disk-intensive... The back-ups are >> less frequent but since I do most things in dropbox then move them into >> archives, TM is more 'oh no I deleted something three months ago' while >> dropbox is the roll-back-from-recently. >> >> >> " ...people should endeavour (more than they do) to express or liberate >> their own real deep-rooted needs and feelings. Then in so doing they will >> probably liberate and aid the expression of the lives of thousands of >> others..." Edward Carpenter >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
