John, I already have a "my Book" back-up for Leopard, but i also have
questions on that since I once had it already filled up and I really
don't need these many incremental back-ups, but would like to go back
a year or two to find something lost. I am not a business. The time
machine does look awesome, though, but right now I only go back until
early June and all that was before has evaporated. It did ask me to
put in a new back-up device, but Lord, how many of those would I need
and have all these minute back-ups on them and filled up at a few
months backing up?
As to the iphone, I already have too many pictures on it, since in the
beginning it just poured my whole iPhoto on it . Now I am not that
careless. On the other hand, I hate to have everything wiped out on my
phone. The explanations on those drop down menus are far from clear.
And I still have a Lacie filled with God knows how much stuff, before
dropping all info from my iMac into my new Leopard inspired MBp.
I do back up my iDisk manually when I know I want to keep something.
It just doesn't show as cloud on my Tiger OS. Only the usual globe
affair.
Thanks for the help
Marta
On Jul 16, 2008, at 19:36 , Profile wrote:
Marta,
The iDisk isn't good for a complete backup, it would be way too slow
if you have on your machine the amount of "goodies" most of us do.
I used iDisk for the personal settings to make the system work but I
used "BACKUP" for everything else. Now that I have gone to Leopard
that has disappeared but if you are a dotmac subscriber then Backup
is available where you can configure the program to backup to a
firewire drive on the schedule you wish and copying the files you
want included.
This will give you a complete backup the first time then daily
incrementals. I used it for at least a couple years and it worked
fine. Every so often I would wipe out the firewire drive and then
do a full backup to start the process all over. I assume this is
still available for those that don't have Leopard?????
On the iPhone update, I let them wipe it out but then I did the
settings when 2.0 was finally in place for the iPhone to again sync
the various items I wanted, then hit the "apply" and it was done.
You will love 2.0, don't hesitate just be sure that whatever you
have on there now is stored in iTunes or iPhoto, or Podcast, etc.
etc. (you say you don't have anything anyway so you really have
nothing to lose).
John
On Jul 16, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
Can somebody enlighten me a bit as to the synching with macs
running Tiger still?
I in no way will turn all my computers into leopard, there are too
many things I don't want to miss in Tiger,
so, I guess I will still get my iDisk as was, instead of the
cloud. Anything I should know?
I also got a message when I tried to sync my iPhone. They want me
to update it to version 2, but are warning me i am to lose
everything as to photos and itunes and movies which I don't have,
so I declined until I could confer with this group first.
I do have photos set on manual, though, I don't want my whole
iPhoto migrate unto my iPhone. This for your info. Maybe that has
something to do with the updating issue.
Marta
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