Just to be sure you have the right info. Just setup Time Machine from
within System Preferences and it'll do everything else for you. I've
not used the Time Machine application itself, but mainly cause it's
rather graphical and hard to follow, but you really don't need it all
that much to begin with, at least not when backing up stuff or
retrieving it.
On Aug 31, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Okay. I'll look forward to check out Time machine.
Best regards
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On 31/08/2008, at 13.45, Scott Howell wrote:
Time Machine will backup the entire disk if that is what you wish.
This would of course include all your settings etc. You can of
course opt to only backup those files and folders you feel are
necessary. For example, you may not want to backup all the
applications, but you do want their configuration files etc. Most
apps store these in your user Library folder or the system Library
folder. SO you could exclude the applications folder if you wanted.
hth
On Aug 31, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Cool. Thanks for your answers. I assume Time machine backup all
the settings?
Best regards
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On 29/08/2008, at 20.32, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi. You can use your Leopard install dvd to restore a time
machine backup. However, that backup is not bootable itself.
What I would suggest you do, assuming your external drive is
large enough, is to partition it in to two parts. Use one of
these for time machine, and use the other one to make a bootable
clone of your drive. In an emergency situation, you can get
things up and running much faster with a bootable clone. You can
use something like carbon copy cloner to do this.
Darcy
On 29-Aug-08, at 7:11 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Hi Chris.
I'll get an external hard disc very soon which I'll use together
with Time Machine.
If I choose to make a backup of the whole system, can I then
boot the system up from my external hard disc? In other words:
Does Time Machine backs up the whole operating system which I
can restore if the whole system crash?
Best regards Søren.
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Subject: Re: Time Machine.
Format? Your drive should already be formatted. The first
backup will take quite a while as Time Machine will be copying
pretty much the entire contents of your hard drive to the
external drive. USB is also much slower than Firewire so that
will contribute to dragging out the first backup process. Most
of the stats I've seen for USB2 show throughput pegging at
about 10MB/s while FW400 pegs at about 30MB/s. I'm sure with
lots of little files both of those rates drop. So if we assume
you have maybe 75GB of stuff to backup and you get maybe 7.5MB/
s that would be 10,000 seconds or about 2.8 hours.
CB
Andrew Ireland wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone advise how long a 250GB USB external drive should
take to format
using Time Machine? It's been running for about 40 Minutes.
Voiceover
doesn't appear to interact with the window that is open, all I
can get out
of it is "busy".
Thanks in advance
Andrew
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