On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:35:34 +0900 Paul Collett said: >Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the backups >work if you have your Powermail folder included? > >I was finding the hourly backups were taking forever - in most cases, >well over an hour if they even got completed, and generally slowing down >my computer. After playing around with including and excluding different >folders it seems Powermail was slowing things down the most; excluding >the entire Powermail folder from the backup set means Time Machine is >now working as advertised. Unfortunately at the expense of getting >hourly backups of my mail. > >I'm very interested to hear any other experiences here, especially if >people are getting successful and fast backups of their mail. > >Paul Collett > > I am using Time Machine with Leopard and the hourly backups take less than a minute to complete. I am running PowerMail 24 hours a day. The only folder I have excluded from the backup in my Boinc folder as I don't care if that gets lost.
I think you have something else wrong - have you checked your system and console logs for errors? Geoff -- Using PowerMail 5.5.3 (SpamSieve 2.6.4) on a G5 dual 1.8MHz, 3 GB RAM, under MacOSX 10.5
