Hi Laura, The Portable FW800 Drive I would recommend is a "Western Digitsl 2TB Firewire800 Drive "MyPassport Studio Portable Hard Drive". It doesn't require power, just runs off Firewire, and is a little portable drive. Very nice, great solid units.
<http://store.apple.com/au/product/H8393PA/A/western-digital-2tb-my-passport-studio-portable-hard-drive> If you email Daniel Kerr MacWizardry (when he returns from his break), he can supply these units and will give you a good price. Email: <dan...@macwizardry.com.au> If you do get one I will send you details how to set it up correctly to work with Time Machine. They have a sleep feature, so can be set to sleep when not backing up to TM. My Backup Strategy can be downloaded at this link: <http://ronnibrown.net/tutorials/backup/index.html> Thanks Tim for jumping in and helping out I really did not want to answer any WAMUG emails over my break. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 27/12/2012, at 5:39 PM, Laura Webb <el...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Hello Tim > > Thanks for your suggestion. I had not thought to use both Super Duper and > Time Machine. For some years I have been using Super Duper on my "elderly" > MacBook and have a separate external drive for that. > > When the weather cools (being optimistic) I'll go looking for a 1TB drive. > > Regards > Laura > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > On 27/12/2012, at 5:13 PM, Tim Law <t...@peoplehelp.com.au> wrote: > >> Hello Laura, >> >> I use Super Duper and Time Machine, on different external back up disks with >> my Mac Mini of a similar vintage to yours. >> >> Super Duper does a full disk copy back up each night. >> Time Machine does incremental backups each half hour or so. >> >> They do different things and have different advantages. >> >> If there is a fire for example, I'd be grabbing the Super Duper drive first. >> Mind you, unplugging the Mini and carting that out of the house is easy as >> it is almost as small as the external drive. >> If I have deleted a file from early this morning, and want to retrieve it, >> then I go into Time Machine. >> >> Other family members with smallish hard drives also use the same 1Tb drive >> over our family network as a Time Machine backup. ie less than 100Gb. >> >> My suggestion is to buy a 1Tb external drive and use it exclusively for Time >> Machine, and keep your current disk for Super Duper. >> >> Tim >> >> >> On 27/12/2012, at 4:21 PM, Laura Webb <el...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon all on this very hot day. >>> >>> I need some help please with setting up Time Machine to back up on an >>> external drive. My MacMini (mid 2010) was originally intended mainly as a >>> media centre, However I recently upgraded it to Mountain Lion and intend to >>> make more use of its computer capabilities. Previously I used Super Duper >>> for backups but Time Machine seems to make more sense. >>> >>> The external drive I have is USB 320 GB (supplied by Daniel). >>> >>> When I attempted a back up I was given a message that there is insufficient >>> room on the disk. The backup requires 259.82GB but only 123.82GB is >>> available. The message also adds that work space is needed for other items >>> as well as the actual backup. Fair enough, but is it usual for there to be >>> such a difference in the capacity? The external drive works well with Super >>> Duper so I could, of course, continue to use that as a back up system. >>> >>> There is also the option, to exclude some files from the Time Machine back >>> up, but I have no idea how to do that or what should be excluded. >>> >>> Obviously to use Time Machine I need a much larger external drive. Advice >>> as to what size and what brand is recommended would be appreciated. >>> >>> Best wishes to all for a happy and healthy 2013. My thanks particularly to >>> Ronni and also to other members who so readily give advice when it is >>> required. >>> >>> Regards >>> Laura >>> >>> >>> MacMini >>> 2.4GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo >>> 4GB Memory >>> OSX 10.8.2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121227/a3f34893/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
