Comments on: Riding in the Time Machine http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/ education | teaching | math | technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dustin Kick http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-14818 Dustin Kick Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:22:29 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-14818 About your not being able to exclude what you want. I noticed you have filevault enabled. Time Machine doesn't back up filevaulted folders while you're logged in, so they're already excluded. About your not being able to exclude what you want. I noticed you have filevault enabled. Time Machine doesn’t back up filevaulted folders while you’re logged in, so they’re already excluded.

]]> By: virusdoc http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11803 virusdoc Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:22:52 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11803 a firewire disk would chill your CPU temp considerably, since the firewire interface acts as the bus master for the transfer. With USB, the system bus has to communicate with the CPU for each individual file, slowing transfer times and hogging CPU cycles. And if I understand the Timemachine details, it should only back up the files that change after the first backup. 16gb every hour is ridiculous, and makes me think there is a setting incorrect in TM preferences. But of course I don't have it yet, so I can't be more specific. My upgrade shipped from Amazon today, although I'm going to wait until 10.5.1 is released to install it. I'm really hoping the lousy icon issues on the dock (which you complained about and so did many other reviews I read) are resolved by then. I also bought a family pack of iWork. I'm looking forward to trying out Keynote. a firewire disk would chill your CPU temp considerably, since the firewire interface acts as the bus master for the transfer. With USB, the system bus has to communicate with the CPU for each individual file, slowing transfer times and hogging CPU cycles.

And if I understand the Timemachine details, it should only back up the files that change after the first backup. 16gb every hour is ridiculous, and makes me think there is a setting incorrect in TM preferences. But of course I don’t have it yet, so I can’t be more specific. My upgrade shipped from Amazon today, although I’m going to wait until 10.5.1 is released to install it. I’m really hoping the lousy icon issues on the dock (which you complained about and so did many other reviews I read) are resolved by then.

I also bought a family pack of iWork. I’m looking forward to trying out Keynote.

]]> By: Jeff http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11798 Jeff Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:06:28 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11798 You sound like you have set it up to backup hourly? issue is you're using TimeMachine like a drive mirror such as you get with RAID Level 1. There are a lot of files that get "touched" in some way and if they're big, such as an Entourage database, of a FileMaker database, the ENTIRE file is copied and that takes time! Doing this every hour is really a bad idea. Add to this the fact that very quickly you are going to eat up your 500GB of drive space. So your backups will only go back a few days at most. You should look at a RAID solution or the creation of a working directory that's backed up every hour (plenty of shareware/freeware apps can do that) and the entire drive once a day at night using TimeMachine. You sound like you have set it up to backup hourly? issue is you’re using TimeMachine like a drive mirror such as you get with RAID Level 1. There are a lot of files that get “touched” in some way and if they’re big, such as an Entourage database, of a FileMaker database, the ENTIRE file is copied and that takes time! Doing this every hour is really a bad idea. Add to this the fact that very quickly you are going to eat up your 500GB of drive space. So your backups will only go back a few days at most. You should look at a RAID solution or the creation of a working directory that’s backed up every hour (plenty of shareware/freeware apps can do that) and the entire drive once a day at night using TimeMachine.

]]> By: JDB http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11797 JDB Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:30:22 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/riding-in-the-time-machine/#comment-11797 You might try repairing permissions and re-checking the permissions of your user folder. I haven't played around with time machine yet, but it looks like you've got permission issues for not being able to select a folder/file in your own user folder. JDB You might try repairing permissions and re-checking the permissions of your user folder. I haven’t played around with time machine yet, but it looks like you’ve got permission issues for not being able to select a folder/file in your own user folder.

JDB

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