Mac Backup Question
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- mg33
I just bought a new 500GB WD My Book last night to finally get around to backing up my mbp and another My Book I already have.
I planned on using Time Machine, though I'm curious if any of you have any preferences of the included WD Anywhere Backup software in comparison with Time Machine.
Which am I better off using?
Thanks!
- akrokdesign0
i am doing it manually, so i can't help you on this on. but, i am guessing the time machine should work out fine.
- silentseven0
I use to use Time Machine but it kills resources doing an incremental backup so I use http://freeridecoding.com/smartb…. And just set it to backup every morning with an event in iCal.
- TResudek0
I user superduper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/Supe…
- letterhead0
Does time machine fill up a HD pretty quick? I mean, does it overwrite previous backups or just add them on top of eachother? Not sure how it works.
- erikjonsson0
open up time machine and it tells you exactly what is happening :P
it backs up your whole drive the first time. after the initial mirror of the drive it just updates files that got changed
- raf0
Time Machine gives you versions of all files in time, that's pretty useless. You can restore the system from a Time Machine backup, but it actually doesn't do a complete restore - some settings and files go astray.
I do full clone backups with Carbon Copy Cloner - makes more sense to me and in any case, backups are bootable.- some people want versioning (to recover files they deleted or screwed up), not a system clone.ribit
- zaq0
- welded0
I'm pretty certain you can't use Time Machine with more than one machine. I might be wrong, though. Maybe if you partition the hard drive in half...
- akrokdesign0
Back up the whole family.
The moment you choose a Time Machine drive, a single folder is created on the drive. Inside this folder is a subfolder for each Mac being backed up. (Yes, multiple Mac systems can share the same backup drive.) And within each subfolder is another list of folders — one for every backup performed on that Mac. Time Machine uses a standard file system to store all of its information. Nothing hidden anywhere.
- forcetwelve0
i use personalbackup. it's awesome
- mg330
I went with Time Machine, and sadly had a bunch of problems dasiy-chaining the new 500GB MyBook after my current 320 GB drive. It kept unmounting from the computer when they were both plugged into the FW800 port. I can't use the FW400 port since my Apogee Duet is plugged into that.
Anyhow, just using my only open USB port on the computer, and it's working fine now.