time machine backups?
Hi Dave,
You state 2 things. 1) The new version includes full Leopard support, including the ability to store a bootable backup side-by-side with a Time Machine backup on a single volume 2) ability to copy Time Machine archives to other drives for backup purposes or to move to a larger drive without losing history. Could u explain how this is done? Didnt see anything in the manual or FAQ |
No tricks: just use "Backup - all files" with "Smart Update" in the first case, and either "Smart Update" or "Erase, then copy" in the 2nd.
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But if you do Smart Update to your existing Time Machine drive, won't it delete the Time Machine files because they don't currently exist on the source drive?
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I'm assuming SD is smart enough to recognize the TM folder and not get rid of it, but this means you'll need a disk large enough to hold both your SD backup and the whole TM history.
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Not if you don't do "Erase, then copy". See the "What's going to happen?" section of the UI.
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OK, with "Backup - all files" and "Smart Update Dest from Src" ,
the "What's going to happen" screen includes "Smart Update will copy an erase what's needed to make Dest identical to your selections from Src." So, will it erase the existing "Backups.backupdb" directory and all its contents since it does not appear on Src? Also, ACL's aren't mentioned anywhere in the User Guide.pdf. When do I want to turn on "Copy ACL's"? mac-10 |
I think dnanian is referring to the paragraph above that in the GUI where it says: "The Time Machine backups on TimeMachineData will be preserved." TimeMachineData being the name of my TM disk.
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tiborg is exactly right. ACLs are "Access Control Lists" and are a default part of Leopard. They should be on unless you have a good reason to turn them off.
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I deleted the backup, renamed the dir back and reran the backup and it reported correctly. I'm not sure "name matching" is a good long term strategy, but if that simply how CoreBackup services handles it and you hand to native OSX sevices, it may be all you have at your disposal without breaking a lot fo other things, like SD! being compatible with core restore services. All in all, still loving it! mac-10 |
Whatever you do, do NOT rename the "Backups.backupdb" file. It'll mess up all sorts of things, including Time Machine itself.
Name matching is all we have: it's how Time Machine works. |
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ok, all this talk got me more confused. I just want to clone my 250 gb to my 1tb external, and use the 1tb for timemachine.
I did a copy of my TImemachine drive 250gb to my 1tb drive using smart update. If this correct? How do i then tell Time machine to us this one for my new timemachine destination? Do i need to take the 250GB out of timemachines config? |
Just select that drive as the current Time Machine drive in the TM preference pane.
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I'm not sure I understand what's very complicated, lucy: could you ask a more directed question?
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