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I don't think speed or the wall time for performing data protection backups is all that significant for most users. What is significant is the ease of use, ease of understanding and the convenience features that Time Machine offers. The only time…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Reaperducer I had the opposite experience. I was backing up on a LaCie drive via firewire. This afternoon I plugged it into the USB port of my AEBS and set up Time machine, and it didn't do a full initial backup …
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips On a related issue ... I am trying to clone a TM drive right now ... CCC latest version crashes every time after about 5 minutes. This is version 3.1-1b running on an 8 Core Mac Pro with all updates. Cu…
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My MBA remote boot over 802.11g from my PM G5 Dual 2.5 GHz (June 2004) to just 28 mins to get to the Installer Language selection window. One does have to be patient and MBA owners need to to do this at least once so they know what kind of wall time…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ncbill Reviews of the other Intel-based portables like the MBP and MB have shown you need to chop 2 hours off Apple's estimate of battery life in real world use. E.g. Macworld reviewers were getting 3-3.5 hours on t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by k squared I wouldn't know how much faster it would be -- just because there are 8 cores doesn't mean HandBreak will use them all. -- most likely it would still only use 2 cores. The real benefit would be the ability to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by k squared I wouldn't know how much faster it would be -- just because there are 8 cores doesn't mean HandBreak will use them all. -- most likely it would still only use 2 cores. The real benefit would be the ability to…
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On my PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5 GHz (June 2004 model) with 6.5 GB RAM I run HandBrake 0.9.1 to rip a home DVD. I then use same HandBrake program on my MacBook Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM to rip the same DVD and it completes in 1/2 the time it took on the Po…
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Quote: Originally Posted by southerndoc I think it was a corrupted iDisk or bug in Leopard/iDisk sync service. A folder named FileSync that had a file named "username_iDisk.sparsebundle" was listed as 110 GB. I deleted that file, rebooted, tu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jlsniu So I know apple removed the time machine backup to airport drives and pretended it never happened, but I was reinstalling Leopard last night from scratch. I selected to restore from time machine. On the next pa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wkharold After years of feeling guilty because of my sloppy, often non-existent, approach to doing backups at home and at work I am loving Time Machine. I no longer have to worry about a hard drive crashing and one of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kimo_ona_Mac This issue on Apple ynking wireless backup is a no-brainer. Simple response to clear this matter with the MAC universe - It will take a week to backup a 1TB drive via Apple airport extreme (n)using Leopard…
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Apple's web site for Leopard's Time Machine does not indicate support for a USB 2.0 HD attached to an AEBS. It was there a few weeks back but has been removed since. One must conclude from this that it's not supported with Leopard's GM 10.5 release …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marbles Well, if you had one file to delete, this feature may be good enough. But you got so much "hot" stuff, which you may not even remember the names, you'd better erase the backup. LOL - if it's that "hot" then…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hohlecow does anyone know if TM will unmount its backup disk when its done with backups (in the case of a PowerBook/MacBook, can i unplug the backup volume at any time or do i have to manually eject it?) ...snip... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MartinRead Interesting stuff. OK, so how about I have Time Machine on back-up drive for my desktop Mac but want to use the same back-up drive for a MacBook. Is it just a question of setting up different volumes on the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lirand Do I really need this much space for my TM external HD? That means that if I want to backup my whole HD, I would need an external HD that is 3-4 times bigger than my primary HD?? This makes no sense... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr wouldn't be dumb enough to save porn to start with, MacMan, maybe that's your problem. too many funky bugs in that stuff. ever been sued? basic rule in business in the digital age is to be careful with unive…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lirand Hey, I've got a Time Machine question: When I use Time Machine with an external HD - would it be possible to use the same HD for other purposes as well? Thanks Yes it will. Just make sure you provid…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ross.32 What do you guys think about getting rid of the grass background in favor of the new space one? I like it.