Hi Peter, NO, Time Capsule does not have any Firewire Ports. It has 3 Ethernet Ports, 1 Internet WAN Port, 1 USB Port.
What I meant by backing up your Movie folder (or iMovie Folders) using another backup procedure (not Time Machine to your Time Capsule) ... I suggest backing them up to an External Firewire Hard Drive that you would connect to the MacBook's Firewire Port. Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2010, at 12:02 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > Cheers Ronni, thanks for the comprehensive details here. I did wonder about > how to free up the space that got gobbled up by the aborted back-ups. This > answers it for me. Does the Time Capsule have a firewire port? Or are you > suggesting a backup of the Movies folder direct from the Macbook Firewire > port? > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Ronda Brown > Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:12 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Time Capsule backups > > Hi Peter, > > As you have now decided to exclude iMovie Events and iMovie Projects (or the > whole Movie folder), from the Time Machine Backup, and backup these files > using another backup procedure. (I would suggest to a Firewire External > Drive, NOT USB). > > It is probably a good idea to delete the iMovie files that Time Machine has > already backed up, this will also save some space. > > You have two choices: A) Delete a single entire snapshot (that is, all the > files from a particular hourly run of Time Machine) > or > B) Delete all instances of a single file from a certain location, regardless > of how many times that file was backed up. > > Since you tried to backup the iMovie files more times than one hourly backup, > I would suggest you do the "Delete All Instances of a Single File". > > Delete an Entire Snapshot > > To delete all the files Time Machine backed up during a particular hourly > run, follow these steps: > > 1. Click the Time Machine Dock icon or choose Enter Time Machine from the > Time Machine menu to show the “time warp” display. > > 2. Using the arrow buttons or the timeline control on the side of the screen, > navigate to the snapshot you want to delete. > Note that if it occurred within the last day, you’ll delete just that hourly > run; if it occurred earlier, you will delete the only remaining backup for a > particular day or week. > You can verify which backup you’ll be deleting by looking at the large bar at > the bottom of the window. > > 3. From the pop-up Action menu, choose Delete Backup. (It doesn’t matter > whether you have any file or folder selected.) > > Delete All Instances of a Single File > > To delete every backed up copy of a given file from your Time Machine backup, > follow these steps: > > 1. In the Finder, navigate to the folder that contains (or once contained) > any version of the file you want to delete. > > 2. Click the Time Machine Dock icon or choose Enter Time Machine from the > Time Machine menu <image001.jpg>to show the “time warp” display. > > 3. Using the arrow buttons or the timeline control on the side of the screen, > navigate to any previous version of the folder that contains the file you > want to delete. Click once to select it. > > 4. From the pop-up Action menu<image002.jpg>, choose Delete All Backups of > “File Name”. (In Snow Leopard, you can also Control-click or right-click on > the item and choose Delete All Backups of “File Name” from the contextual > menu.) > > Time Machine removes from its backup every copy of that file, in that > location, that it ever backed up. > (For some files, you may be prompted to enter an administrator password > first.) > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 09/03/2010, at 12:32 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > > > > Ok, thanks for the tip on excluding movies from backup. It seems > sensible to exclude and I can see how editing numerous files would > quickly expand the backup to be a huge thing. > > Regards > > Peter.. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Alan Smith > Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 11:08 AM > To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Time Capsule backups > > > Hi Peter > > James's suggestion to localise the potential trouble is good. But I > recommend that you totally exclude movies from Time Machine backup. > Make a > manual backup of movies some other way. TM will backup entire files each > time. If you are editing a movie clip, then each resultant edited clip > is a > new file. By the end of a days work you can have 100 Gigs of just a few > small clips. > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of James Devenish > Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:43 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Time Capsule backups > > > Hi Peter, > > Can I suggest that you go into your System Preferences, then Time > Machine, Options... and click on the Plus sign to select your movies > folder to exclude it from backups (you can also check the size of the > movies folder in the Finder). Then, ask your machine to "Back Up Now". > Check that the required size goes back to a reasonable level (if it > doesn't, there must be something else going on). This backup will at > least ensure that your normal files are safe. > > Once a reasonable backup has occurred and you have some time for an > uninterrupted backup, go back into your Time Machine preferences and > remove your movies from the exclusion list and "Back Up Now". > > James > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
