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Quote: Originally Posted by Royboy Apple needs to make that a lot clearer. The person doing the writing on their site writes that any Firewire or USB and leaves out internal drive. The writer must not know that Apple makes at least one computer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGrouch I am looking for confirmation on this as well. I posted the same question on Mac Roumurs boards and received only one reply stating that it would work on an internal Mac Pro HD, even a partition on the main boo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by markw10 I just placed my preorder today for a family pack of Leopard. One thing I'm looking forward to is Time Machine. I have two macbook pros for me and my fiancee, a Mac Mini, and sometime soon an iMac I don't st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sequitur Two questions: I've heard that Time Machine requires a dedicated hard drive and that you can't put other stuff on the HDD. Is that so? Does Time Machine make a bootable backup? I've heard conflicting in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gdog looking for someone with experience with leopard. is it generally snappier than tiger. ie do all the new features slow things down or is overall experience faster/better. i have first gen intel macs with 2 gigs…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jmeyerfail Yesterday, I stumbled upon a very disturbing thread at the Apple support discussions concerning the Airport Extreme. Apparently, Apple has very recently changed the verbage on their website to no longer exp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I don't see what the big deal is here folks. The OS version every developer has now is the one that will be VERY close to the one released. Instead of all of this silly arguing back and forth, simply tak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by khyros apple hasn't clarified my doubts that's why I ask here for those of you who have actually tried TM. hourly backups are only kept for a period of time (a week?) then those are tosed and only weekly and then mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bobandris Barry, Will TM do the same for your "BootCamp" Volume? No one seems to know. If so, I'm sold! Bob Interesting question. I don't know for sure - sorry. However, even though TM, by default, exclud…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quarky If the Mac which has created the Time Machine Backup fails and comes to the End Of It's Life. Can you attach another Mac to that external hard drive and access those backup files without doing a system restore?…
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Quote: Originally Posted by khyros ...snip... b) This is about the hourly/weekly backups. For example: Oct 12 7pm : newly created File A is backed up to TM Oct 12 8pm : file A was previously (7.30pm) delted so it doesn't appear on this ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregAlexander One of the rumour sites spoke about Apple's portable user logins. In essence, a remote device holds all of the user data including passwords & some (or all) user files. The idea was that you could go …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Capt. Obvious I think the multiple meanings of "backup" are mixing us up: backing up files to a storage disk, from which they can be retrieved, is one sort of backup; maintaining a current bootable partition on a dif…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Philotech Sure. But I assume it won't make 'temporary backups' while the external HD is offline, so of course you loose all hourly, daily or even weekly backups for the time you're away, right? Theoretically, this coul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shahvikram123 oh ok, thanks for the info....but if you connect the external HD whenever you want does it still know what to backup??? TM knows what to backup.
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregAlexander Why too slow? Doing a backup just involves sending new files up to .Mac (a background task, but yeah it requires a good broadband connection). Looking into the past, afaik, is done either 1) on a per-fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core Beautifully written article. And well worth reading it more than once. Perhaps many here should visit Apple's site as well, i.e., at http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/...memachine.html. It may help an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by goodmansvp What would be great is if you could boot from the leopard dvd, and run a restore which searches for a time machine backup and lets you do a complete restore back to a specified date. This can be done with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by machei Here's what I wanted to know: I want to keep TWO backups. I've read that it's best to have one attached to your computer at all times as Time Machine will maintain, but another stored off-site in the event of a …