Time Machine
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- Atkinson
I have a 320gb hd and a 500gb external. Time machine has filled the external in 5 weeks. I have 180gb full on my mac. I don't get how it fills it so fast when it only backs up modifications. Apple just say format it and re-use but I thought that defeated the point of having it. Discuss.
- monospaced0
I haven't begun using Time Machine, but I had been wondering how they intended to backup what amounts to multiple versions of your hard drive. I create many large files on a daily basis, and they get edited and the projects grow over the months. There would be more backed up in Time Machine than I have on my computer at the time, and your post confirms that suspicion.
How many times larger should my Time Machine hard drive be than my computer's?
- just depends on how many backups you'd like to keep.sublocked
- ********0
90% is porn and music youre downloading
- downloading porn is so 2003monospaced
- exactly
400gb of 6 year old porn********
- ********0
lol
- SoulFly0
Believe or not, my previous company was a huge multinational, with a huge presence in Europe. To make a long story short, because they were in Europe, I think, they forced all art depts. in the world to run Adobe Suite on PCs. On the other hand, the office in the US, we insisted on working on Macs, which was fine by everyone, but the mac people could not connect to the back-up servers for "security reasons" (yeah lol, I know). They also didn't allow budget for a mac server, because mac people weren't part of the group now.
This dude in my office, set-up one station on the network just to run Time-Machine, and Gigs of design work was being backed up all through Time-Machine... it was crazy, like one time one of the lacies died...
I gotta tell u it was pretty convenient going back to early versions of work through Time-Machine.
- kerus0
do you work with large PSD files or have a vmware/xp image on oyur machine? everytime i opened vmware and booted up windows it was seeing the 10g partition as modified and archiving it..
- rafalski0
SoulFly, isn't it more efficient to save every valuable version of a file with a different name and keep it, then back up regularly the last version of your folder?
Some people swear by Version Cue, even if they say it got worse in CS4.
- acescence0
i use rsnapshot and rsync, works better than time machine for me and takes up a lot less space. you need to be comfortable on the command line though..
- ********0
I had to shut TM off, I had the same problem, it was filling up to fast. I have 3 ext drives. one main, backup and a junker.
- horton0
to answer the original question... check your TM prefs;
• hourly backups / 24hrs
• daily backups / month
• weekly backups until your disk is fullits not really intended to keep weekly clones of what your drive looked like 2+ months ago... that unrealistic and not really necessary.
- Llyod0
I looked at porn a few days ago for the first time in 7 months.
- ********0
Why did you make that comment?
- kalkal0
I might be wrong but once the allocated space has been used on the given drive, older revisions of files should be overwritten with newer revisions meaning you always have recent backups but not forever which really would require a massive harddrive anyway
- horton0
> " I don't get how it fills it so fast when it only backs up modifications..."
because on 500GB, TM has saved the changes on your drive for 5x weekly backup, 30x monthly backups, 24x hourly... that's a lot of info in my books.
- kalkal0
To make it fill up less speedily and create more space for more backups, try specifying the folders which you want it to backup because I think it backs up your entire user folder by default
- Atkinson0
I think it should work by changing the backed up file to match the most recently saved version. Thing is if you manually go into the ext hd and delete stuff, time machine wont be able to back up from it should the worst happen. Maybe two ext hds is the answer!
- janne760
Where the fuck is Rand?
- kalkal0
Drag folders with irrelevant stuff into this box
- Atkinson0
aye, I'm not I have any irrelevant stuff
- horton0
sorry i don't follow your complaints atkinson... specially comments above about deleting files on the TM external? there's no need to ever go digging in those folders.
i have a 500GB external backing up a 500GB computer (with ~300GB used) and TM works beautifully. right now i can go back and recover anything as of December 14, that's pretty good security in my opinion.