Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Mar 11, 10:22 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 3:03 PM -0500 3/10/2010, Al Poulin wrote: Here, it has been fine with a Time Capsule supporting four Macs in Leopard and Snow Leopard. And you just had to announce that to the world, to see if you could get Murphy's attention.

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-11 Thread Elliott Price
Well, it's a notebook drive, the enclosure is smaller then a 3.5 HD. So I'm not sure how a fan would fit... maybe one of those tiny little Pismo fans, I have an extra one of those. I'll have to try that, thanks for the suggestion. Photos would be nice. :) -Elliott Price Quoit -

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-11 Thread Christian Wacker
Well... I did the mod a few weeks ago now Basically zip-tied an old Penta-cool fan from a Pentium 266mhz overclocking kit onto the metal mesh grille thing that was protecting the electrical half of the drive, and wired the red to red, and black to black. Took the case to my uncle's house where we

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-11 Thread Brad Fisher
I've been using TM with Airport Extreme and two USB drives to back up 3 macs and a pc. Every couple of weeks one of the drives, the one backing up the macs, starts dropping off the network. when this happens I hook it up directly to a mac, run disk utility repair on it, and it's good for another

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-11 Thread Dan
At 3:03 PM -0500 3/10/2010, 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? Four machines, two different clients - TM failures this past two weeks. Their CCC

Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Al Poulin
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

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Elliott Price
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

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: Is Time Machine Bullet Proof Yet?

2010-03-10 Thread Elliott Price
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