12GB, HDD, Mavericks The only time the iMac is stopped 'ungraciously' is if something has gone AWOL and I can't use it. Most of the time I never even switch it off - uptime just gave me:
17:57 up 33 days, 2:09, 3 users, load averages: 1.24 1.18 1.14 I'm finding TME very handy so I'm not worrying too much now. No ZFS here though ... waiting for Apple to sort that one I reckon! Stephen On 25 Nov 2013, at 15:53, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 22 November 2013 11:31:17 UTC, Stephen McW wrote: > > … a lot of its time either preparing to backup, backing up or cleaning up. … > > How much memory in the Mac? Hard disk drive, or solid state? Which version of > the OS? > > Time Machine is a remarkably good citizen with modern versions – *if* the Mac > and its disks are treated normally, gracefully. > > If force is applied to shut down or to restart of the Mac, or if a disk is > improperly ejected (red alert), or if a backup is interrupted: Time Machine > must spend more time than normal. > > How much more time? It varies. In my case, before I moved from HFS Plus to > ZFS, the abnormal times were unacceptably abnormal. Hours, and hours, and > hours. > > With HFS Plus alone: partitioning a disk (fewer files per file system) can > dramatically improve the behaviour of Time Machine after any ungraceful > event. But partitioning does not suit all use cases. "We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile." -- 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.
