iMac Backup Solution?

Spit · 10 Sep 2010 at 09:28

Hi, what do you guys do? Just realised I have not backed mine up!

Is there an enclosure you can buy that takes a SATA drive with Firewire? Wouldnt mind getting one of these 2Tb HDD that ocuk have on offer.

bloodiedathame · 10 Sep 2010 at 10:14

I use a 1TB drive with Time Machine. Does the job perfectly.

Spit · 10 Sep 2010 at 11:52

What hardware?

Maccy · 10 Sep 2010 at 11:53

Any standard external drive will work with Time Machine.

bloodiedathame · 10 Sep 2010 at 12:20

Not sure about enclosures, might get a better response in a different area of the forum.

TheMagicPirate · 10 Sep 2010 at 13:50

I have a 250GB WD passport drive - Nice and small and USB powered (actually looks quite sexy under my mac)
I also have a 2TB external drive in a powered USB caddy for stuff that doesn't need backing up yet

icedbullet · 10 Sep 2010 at 14:05

I use time machine and a freecom sata dock to plug in a 1TB Samsung F3. Works great.

I have been looking for firewire 800 enclosures but there don't seem to be many good quality affordable ones knocking around.

tonyzero · 16 Sep 2010 at 18:14

i use time machine and superduper

iMacMart · 16 Sep 2010 at 19:17

Sorry, slightly off topic, how do you tell time machine to delete old backups? My 500gb is reporting low space, I'm happy for it to delete older backups, would rather it didn't backup so regularly if I'm honest

iraiguana · 17 Sep 2010 at 17:55

You should confine the number of folders it backs up to reduce the total size of each backup.

CMD + Del should remove old backups if you manually go into your time machine drive. Otherwise I thought it had a feature to remove older backups when it neared low space?

PardonTheWait · 17 Sep 2010 at 21:04

tweakinfreak said:
Sorry, slightly off topic, how do you tell time machine to delete old backups? My 500gb is reporting low space, I'm happy for it to delete older backups, would rather it didn't backup so regularly if I'm honest

It'll start deleting old backups when it's full - a window will come up saying you can either add another drive, or let it start overwriting old backups as it goes.