Time Machine

[deano]

if you have your iphoto and / or itunes on separate drive/drives will time machine also back these up?

 

[griffy]

If you ask it to, it will back up another external drive.

My 1TB external drive arrived today, its now backing up over 1,615,000 files

Once its done that, the backups are very quick and hardly noticeable, especially on FW800 as it only backs up the changes.

 

[FreeStream]

489,192 files (139Gb) took 2 hours @ 20-25mb/s constant using USB 2.

Wish they'd update my eSATA drivers so I can get 50mb/s


My setup:

Mac HD 1 (160Gb Internal) + Mac HD 2 (200Gb eSATA) ---> Mac HD 3 (500Gb USB2 + other files)

 

[Caged]

If you ask it to, it will back up another external drive.

My 1TB external drive arrived today, its now backing up over 1,615,000 files

Once its done that, the backups are very quick and hardly noticeable, especially on FW800 as it only backs up the changes.

is that a 1TB single drive or 2 500GB drives in RAID 0? If so it's probably not the best thing to be storing backups on.

 

[griffy]

Its a pair of 500gb drives in RAID 0
Bad idea? I can make it do RAID 1 and have half the space.

 

[FreeStream]

Its a pair of 500gb drives in RAID 0
Bad idea? I can make it do RAID 1 and have half the space.

Yes because if one drive fails you loose it all.

RAID 1 it if you must or send it back and get a proper 1TB drive.

RAID 1 is better IMO tho.

 

[deano]

If you ask it to, it will back up another external drive.

I've had a look but i carn't see it, where do i tell timemachine to backup addional drives?

thanks

 

[FreeStream]

I've had a look but i carn't see it, where do i tell timemachine to backup addional drives?

thanks

It backs up everything that isn't on the hard disk that takes the BU.

IE.

I have Macintosh HD3 and HD4 on the exclude list as they are my time machine and backup HD respectively.

 

[deano]

ok understand now

thanks