I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time machine for the very reasons in this thread. I don't know if John Patricks 7 steps are exactly what its doing, that's a horribly inefficient way of backing anything up - but it wouldn't surprise me if its pretty close to the mark.
Just to clarify the love/hate thing... as a RECOVERY utility time machine is absolutely sublime. second to none, love it! The way it goes about doing its backups could be decribed as clunky at best, but you will be so pleased you had it working when disaster strikes and you need to get something back from it! On 22 November 2013 12:38, <itsagr...@mac.com> wrote: > Thanks Jason - I'd never heard of that app and it could well do the job. > I've downloaded it and will give it a whirl. > > It's free too! > > > Stephen > > On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:50, Jason Davies <ophioc...@me.com> wrote: > > > On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:31, itsagr...@mac.com wrote: > > > >> The backup drive is attached to the Airport Extreme which naturally > slows things down but I was wondering if anyone here has any ideas as to > whether there is anything I can do about the seemingly endless disk writing. > > > > I used TimeMachineEditor to make them less frequent as the incessant > disk-writing noise drove me mad on my work machine (over USB). Like you, I > found it always getting ready, doing or tidying up. My home machine (Mac > Pro) goes to an internal drive and I don't notice it, so I think it's down > to speed of connection. TM is obviously disk-intensive... The back-ups are > less frequent but since I do most things in dropbox then move them into > archives, TM is more 'oh no I deleted something three months ago' while > dropbox is the roll-back-from-recently. > > > " ...people should endeavour (more than they do) to express or liberate > their own real deep-rooted needs and feelings. Then in so doing they will > probably liberate and aid the expression of the lives of thousands of > others..." Edward Carpenter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
