Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
Any disasters in the past year? There are many people happy with Time Machine, and it seems to have become more stable to run as designed in the past year. True? Here, it has been fine with a Time Capsule supporting four Macs in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
On Mar 10, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Al Poulin wrote: Any disasters in the past year? There are many people happy with Time Machine, and it seems to have become more stable to run as designed in the past year. True? The only problem Ive had with Time Machine was the failure of the external drive on two occasions. It really requires a rock-solid drive. I've had good luck with Buffalo and Seagate externals. The ones that went bad was an already pretty old 'Metal Gear' enclosure (the drive is chugging along just fine in another enclosure) and drive failure (surprise surprise) on a WD MyBook. It has saved the butts of a number of people here, including just last week: a professor who just managed to erase his whole documents folder. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: drive failure (surprise surprise) on a WD MyBook. I should add that this one also kept mysteriously turning 'Read-Only' which required unmounting and re-mounting the drive, something none of my other TM volumes have needed. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
I think my backup drive that I've been using as a TM drive (An Iomega eGo drive) screwed up something in my main hard drive's system; I have the problem where my boot partition shows up as EFI boot in firmware, and recently, whenever it was plugged in, I would have strange problems that cleared up the instant I unplugged it. (Such as system processes with DEV in the name taking up 99% of my CPU power) Needless to say, I haven't backed up for a few weeks. :P -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Elliott Price wrote: I think my backup drive that I've been using as a TM drive (An Iomega eGo drive) screwed up something in my main hard drive's system; No. a TM volume is just another USB or Firewire removable drive, and cannot affect your hard drive in that fashion. Time Machine itself is a file-level program, and so can only access volumes, not devices, mucking about with the boot partition is a device-level thing. I have the problem where my boot partition shows up as EFI boot in firmware, and recently, whenever it was plugged in, I would have strange problems that cleared up the instant I unplugged it. (Such as system processes with DEV in the name taking up 99% of my CPU power) Needless to say, I haven't backed up for a few weeks. :P 'the problem' indicates this is a known issue? My suggestion would be to boot from your OS disk, and use Disk Utility to check it's SMART status and run a repair pass on it. If it's ok, re-partition, and reformat your hard drive, re-install the OS and use your backup drive to restore. I'd also be on the lookout for a new drive; because these kinds of issues are often early warning signs of impending drive failure, SMART reported good or not. Very typically after an incident like this, the SMART errors will start appearing. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Trying to find May 2009 Macbook (new)
Judith, For your purposes, any older MacBook equipped with a Firewire port will do the trick. (Preferably Core2Duo.) They all have 2 USB ports as well. I personally have a previous model, the late 2007 2.2Ghz with 4 gigs of RAM, and it is a fast, solid, dependable workhorse, still capable to deal with the latest software. Since finding a new one at this point is sort of improbable (although I wouldn't just rule it out), your best bet would be getting a gently used one. Best of lucks, Felix -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?
On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Elliott Price wrote: I think my backup drive that I've been using as a TM drive (An Iomega eGo drive) screwed up something in my main hard drive's system; No. a TM volume is just another USB or Firewire removable drive, and cannot affect your hard drive in that fashion. Time Machine itself is a file-level program, and so can only access volumes, not devices, mucking about with the boot partition is a device-level thing. I really don't know that much about file systems, devices, and volume stuff... I have the problem where my boot partition shows up as EFI boot in firmware, and recently, whenever it was plugged in, I would have strange problems that cleared up the instant I unplugged it. (Such as system processes with DEV in the name taking up 99% of my CPU power) Needless to say, I haven't backed up for a few weeks. :P 'the problem' indicates this is a known issue? I've heard other people say that their HD showed up as EFI boot... I forget why they said that happens. My suggestion would be to boot from your OS disk, and use Disk Utility to check it's SMART status and run a repair pass on it. I've already run: Disk utility's permissions repair, repair disk, Disk Warrior, FSCK, reset P-ram. (on my internal HD.) I just completely reinstalled my OS wiped my HD when I upgraded to Snow Leopard about 5-6 months ago, or whenever it came out. If it's ok, re-partition, and reformat your hard drive, re-install the OS and use your backup drive to restore. I'd also be on the lookout for a new drive; because these kinds of issues are often early warning signs of impending drive failure, SMART reported good or not. Very typically after an incident like this, the SMART errors will start appearing. I replaced the HD recently, last summer, with a 500Gb drive; so I don't think it's the drive itself, I'm pretty sure it's my system. When booted on my other smaller partition, everything works fine, and it shows up as a boot device in the firmware, instead of EFI boot. (I haven't tried hooking up my external drive while booted on this partition) I have no idea how or why, but whenever that Iomega drive is hooked up, I have troubles with sleeping, waking, system crashes, etc. that all go away when I unplug it. -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
