For me I think TimeMachineEditor will be the business. I like TM so much because:
a) I don't even have to think about it - when I used Retrospect many years ago I had to remember that it was "time to do my backup", just like when I used to be in charge of backups at work. It was possible to forget ... b) Getting files back via TM, which I've had to do about 4 times over the years, works brilliantly and that is worth a LOT. Most backups I've used in the past were either difficult or a nightmare to actually retrieve anything should disaster strike. Also, I remember with Retrospect, there was always a nagging feeling that I'd somehow not told it to backup everything due to the configuration options. An excellent choice of Apple's in the design of TM is the removal of almost every possible setting so that you need to consciously choose to avoid a full backup ! Since installing TME my disk is much quieter (less mechanical wear and tear too!) and I may even increase the delay until three hours and then get fancy with the calendar options. I think one hour is Apple's compromise of usefulness and disk/processor use and I think I'm happy to let the time between backups slip a bit. On those occasions that I have wanted to get something back, it was usually something days or weeks old, rather than a few hours so the payoff seems reasonable. One question with TME: I'd switched off TM via its big switch and let TME do its thing. A short while ago the TM menu bar item showed it was backing up and it now agrees by giving the last backup time on its menu. However, TME's Window>Show Time Machine Logs window is empty after a refresh. Is this just because I'm an ordinary user rather than an administrator and so have no access to the log files? Stephen On 22 Nov 2013, at 14:28, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Nov 2013, at 13:53, John Patrick wrote: > >> I would say it's one of the better general backup solutions available, easy >> to use. > > for certain things, it knocks the stuffing out of any other. By that I mean > 'when the hell did I delete that file?' because retrieval is so easy. In the > old days I hadrolling clones that were each updated once a week so I had a > sort of weekly snapshot. But it required a lot of remembering to do things... > > for many things, a clone is still king (eg switching to new machine). (I do > both: so I have > > 1) anything actively being edited goes through Dropbox if possible > 2) when it's fairly done, it goes out (to save space there) and will then be > done by TM > 3) nightly clones of my (very small) start-up disk. "We are, by any honest assessment, a race of little children, running around the planet with far too much power and not nearly enough maturity. We're like a band of infants with flamethrowers." - Mike Adams, www.naturalnews.com -- 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.
