So, in a way, I'm updating continuously now, which makes my machine awfully slow.
It would definitely be beneficial for Apple to tweak the Time Machine control panel so that you could turn off hourly backups.
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Since more than a week or so Spotlight also tries to index the backup-volume. Currently it tells me that it will be finished with indexing in only 74 hours or so. Great.
Hmmm I didn't think backup volumes were automatically indexed. However you can easily stop Spotlight from indexing anything you wish, including volumes. Open up the Spotlight control panel, click on the "Privacy" tab and then drag your Time Machine drive icon into the list.
As for my experience, I have my MacBook backing up to my G4, then my G4 backing up to an attached FW drive once a week. My backups from the MacBook don't bother me much since they only backup when I am plugged in (which is probably ever four hours of use or so). I have a .11g network and after my first full backup it's been fine for all the incremental backups. It takes a long time to prepare, but the transfer rate is normally about a 400-500KB/s.
It would definitely be beneficial for Apple to tweak the Time Machine control panel so that you could turn off hourly backups.
Yes, that would be great. A daily backup would be more than enough for me.
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Originally Posted by jowie74
Hmmm I didn't think backup volumes were automatically indexed. However you can easily stop Spotlight from indexing anything you wish, including volumes. Open up the Spotlight control panel, click on the "Privacy" tab and then drag your Time Machine drive icon into the list.
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Originally Posted by neondiet
BTW, you can stop Spotlight indexing your TM drive. Open up System Preferences and select Spotlight. Click on the Privacy TAB, then click "+" and add your TM drive to the list. This should improve your situation a bit.
Unfortunately this doesn't work! Seems to be a bug as other users have this problem, too. Sometimes you get an error message when you try to add the TM disk to your privacy list, sometimes the TM disk is added to the list, but indexing continues anyway. There doesn't seem to be a simple way (i.e. without using the console) to stop TM from indexing the backup disk image. BTW, the TM disk doesn't seem to be indexed at all, only the backup disk image is. I hope this improves with one of the next updates.
Unfortunately this doesn't work! Seems to be a bug as other users have this problem, too. Sometimes you get an error message when you try to add the TM disk to your privacy list, sometimes the TM disk is added to the list, but indexing continues anyway. There doesn't seem to be a simple way (i.e. without using the console) to stop TM from indexing the backup disk image. BTW, the TM disk doesn't seem to be indexed at all, only the backup disk image is. I hope this improves with one of the next updates.
Interesting - I never got this (not that I've noticed).
Are you talking about indexing happening on the machine with the TM drive, or on the backup client?
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I bet it will make a difference when you have multiple Macs backing up at the same time.
I can't imagine so... 300Mbps is the fastest either AE or TC will receive data. And that's just a theoretical speed.
USB2.0 is 480Mbps. Therefore your wireless connection is a bottleneck to any extra bandwidth SATA may give you.
So, in a way, I'm updating continuously now, which makes my machine awfully slow.
It would definitely be beneficial for Apple to tweak the Time Machine control panel so that you could turn off hourly backups.
Since more than a week or so Spotlight also tries to index the backup-volume. Currently it tells me that it will be finished with indexing in only 74 hours or so. Great.
Hmmm I didn't think backup volumes were automatically indexed. However you can easily stop Spotlight from indexing anything you wish, including volumes. Open up the Spotlight control panel, click on the "Privacy" tab and then drag your Time Machine drive icon into the list.
As for my experience, I have my MacBook backing up to my G4, then my G4 backing up to an attached FW drive once a week. My backups from the MacBook don't bother me much since they only backup when I am plugged in (which is probably ever four hours of use or so). I have a .11g network and after my first full backup it's been fine for all the incremental backups. It takes a long time to prepare, but the transfer rate is normally about a 400-500KB/s.
It would definitely be beneficial for Apple to tweak the Time Machine control panel so that you could turn off hourly backups.
Yes, that would be great. A daily backup would be more than enough for me.
Hmmm I didn't think backup volumes were automatically indexed. However you can easily stop Spotlight from indexing anything you wish, including volumes. Open up the Spotlight control panel, click on the "Privacy" tab and then drag your Time Machine drive icon into the list.
BTW, you can stop Spotlight indexing your TM drive. Open up System Preferences and select Spotlight. Click on the Privacy TAB, then click "+" and add your TM drive to the list. This should improve your situation a bit.
Unfortunately this doesn't work! Seems to be a bug as other users have this problem, too. Sometimes you get an error message when you try to add the TM disk to your privacy list, sometimes the TM disk is added to the list, but indexing continues anyway. There doesn't seem to be a simple way (i.e. without using the console) to stop TM from indexing the backup disk image. BTW, the TM disk doesn't seem to be indexed at all, only the backup disk image is. I hope this improves with one of the next updates.
Unfortunately this doesn't work! Seems to be a bug as other users have this problem, too. Sometimes you get an error message when you try to add the TM disk to your privacy list, sometimes the TM disk is added to the list, but indexing continues anyway. There doesn't seem to be a simple way (i.e. without using the console) to stop TM from indexing the backup disk image. BTW, the TM disk doesn't seem to be indexed at all, only the backup disk image is. I hope this improves with one of the next updates.
Interesting - I never got this (not that I've noticed).
Are you talking about indexing happening on the machine with the TM drive, or on the backup client?