I lost another Seagate Barracuda internal drive last weekend. It was the fifth that has died in my Mac Pro. All have been covered by Seagate warranty. Fortunately, in almost every case, the drive's purpose has been backup, not primary boot volume or primary data storage. It's ironic in some ways how much time I've wasted on a backup strategy that involves this formerly highly regarded drive maker over the past two years.
Re-thinking my backup strategy stimulated me to read more about something I already do to protect confidential data; i.e., put it on a password-protected sparse bundle image volume. I never knew before last weekend that the ³bundle² in that moniker meant that the OS could read 8 MB ³stripes² within large ³files² and backup only those that have been modified. That got me wondering if there might be some way I could place my Main User Identity folder on a read-write sparse bundle image (not password protected) and tell Time Machine to handle it like any file. That¹s apparently how it deals with volumes protected by FileVault. It would be really cool if the sparse bundle concept could be applied at the file or folder level rather than at the volume level. What do you-talk listas think of this notion? Thanks a bunch, Jim Robertson -- -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
