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besson3c · Nov 9, 2007, 05:49 PM

Network backups were originally a Leopard feature, but this feature was pulled at the very last minute.

There are hacks to get network backups to work, sort of (you can backup, but I've never been able to get the TM interface to recognize the files properly), but if you have a lot of files on your computer this is also useless. Having to scan through an entire backup set over the network every hour is just too time consuming, it requires you to basically constantly be backing up. Plus, TM only works over AFP right now which is already very slow... Throw in the speeds of a wireless connection and its fluctuations...

wataru · Nov 9, 2007, 07:20 PM

I'm having trouble with Time Machine too. I'm using a partition of an external FW drive, and Time Machine just hangs after getting a couple gigs into the backup. I found an article somewhere saying that the drive should be GUID partition-mapped, and that MBR mapping is a problem. Mine's neither; it's Apple partition scheme. So is that the reason? Is there a workaround other than reformatting my entire external drive?

besson3c · Nov 9, 2007, 07:23 PM

Maybe you could try backing up to a mounted disk image?

wataru · Nov 10, 2007, 07:25 AM

Actually I take it back, it's not just Time Machine. My FW drive is being flaky in general under Leopard

msuper69 · Nov 11, 2007, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by adamfishercox

It's not broken or anything. Think about it. You can't "Back up" Safari, so it won't move Safari into a backup scenario. Instead, it grabs the Finder Window, which you can back up. In Mail, Address Book, iPhoto, and a few others are the only ones that will enter Time Machine, because they are the only back-uppable apps.

TM can back up any file. Safari is a file. Everything is a file. Your statement about "back-uppable apps" is ludicrous.

lioneltz · Nov 11, 2007, 07:42 AM

Hi,

For some reason my TimeMachine doesn't integrate with iPhoto which I know it should have. So when I launch iPhoto and click on TimeMachine, the iPhoto window dissapear and I'm presented with a Finder window. How am I going to restore my photo then because we all know how messy iPhoto manages its files structure?!

There's nothing excluded in my Time Machine's Option except it's own backup drive. My iPhoto is 7.02 part of iLife '08.

Any clues please?

mduell · Nov 11, 2007, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by msuper69

TM can back up any file. Safari is a file. Everything is a file. Your statement about "back-uppable apps" is ludicrous.

Reread his post. He means that the content inside Safari can't be (meaningfully/usefully) backed up. The app itself is backed up inside the applications folder, but if you open TM while in safari, it just kicks you back to finder window (from which you could recover the safari app itself, but not the contents of a safari window).

CharlesS · Nov 11, 2007, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by wataru

Actually I take it back, it's not just Time Machine. My FW drive is being flaky in general under Leopard

What brand is the drive?

schalliol · Nov 14, 2007, 01:21 PM

I installed a new bigger drive into my time machine server, but I can't seem to move the time machine volumes over to that new drive (up from a 120 to a 750). It would be great if I could retain my backups thus far as I transition to the new drive. A file copy says that I don't have enough space, which isn't true, but since Time Machine uses multiple hard links, it makes sense to me it says I don't have enough space. Ideas?

besson3c · Nov 14, 2007, 01:27 PM

Schalliol: how are you attempting to copy the data? I would recommend using rsync with the -E flag to maintain OS X metadata, the -a flag for archiving, the -H flag to maintain hard links, and the -v flag so that you watch the syncing...

~ Billy. · 08:37 AM

I'm having a problem with TM that I haven't seen discussed elsewhere on this site yet (well... maybe some mention)... TM seems to be making backups like it should, however, when I open TM to the "outer space" thing where I can see the stack of dated backups, it shows the most recent backup as having been made 15 days ago. I've made changes to my computer since then so there is something there to back up. Another clue maybe, is that I'm not getting the "creating backup" dialogue box with the progress meter... when the backups occur, a volume is mounted and then goes away. Looking in the backup folder on my HD, I see that TM hasn't been making recent backups. I have a MacBook and am using an external 500GB HD. How should I try to fix this?

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Okay... so I ran a backup again, and when the volume mounted, I looked into it, and lo and behold, my backups were there inside. But, they're still not showing on my HD. Have I screwed up something stupid with my settings or something? What's a sparsebundle? There's an empty one on my HD that's dated the date my backups stopped working.
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I saw someone with a similar issue with his TM doing the sparsebundle to root thing. How do you correct this?

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Thank you!

- - e r i k - - · Nov 26, 2007, 07:16 AM

My backup drive suddenly became Read-only. After a few alerts of that from Time Machine, the OS itself told me that I should backup my hard drive and reformat. No big deal really as I didn't lose anything, but pretty annoying and unnerving.

bradkap · Nov 27, 2007, 06:10 AM

Using Leopard, we connected our Maxter 120gb HD via usb to the Macbook. Time Machine copied all of the data already on the Maxter into the file on the Macbook. Does this mean that we need to dedicate one external HD per Macbook, or is there a way to tell Time Machine to direct itself to a specific file on the Maxter ??

mduell · Nov 27, 2007, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by bradkap

Using Leopard, we connected our Maxter 120gb HD via usb to the Macbook. Time Machine copied all of the data already on the Maxter into the file on the Macbook. Does this mean that we need to dedicate one external HD per Macbook, or is there a way to tell Time Machine to direct itself to a specific file on the Maxter ??

Time Machine creates a different folder for each computer inside the backupdb folder.

PhotoBug · Nov 30, 2007, 12:06 AM

I am having this problem as well. My first instal of leopard worked fine with this but my second instal lost this for some reason. I need an event I deleted!

Originally Posted by lioneltz

Hi,

For some reason my TimeMachine doesn't integrate with iPhoto which I know it should have. So when I launch iPhoto and click on TimeMachine, the iPhoto window dissapear and I'm presented with a Finder window. How am I going to restore my photo then because we all know how messy iPhoto manages its files structure?!

There's nothing excluded in my Time Machine's Option except it's own backup drive. My iPhoto is 7.02 part of iLife '08.

Any clues please?

PhotoBug · Nov 30, 2007, 12:12 AM

I am having this problem as well. My first instal of leopard worked fine with this but my second instal lost this for some reason. I need an event I deleted!

Originally Posted by lioneltz

Hi,

For some reason my TimeMachine doesn't integrate with iPhoto which I know it should have. So when I launch iPhoto and click on TimeMachine, the iPhoto window dissapear and I'm presented with a Finder window. How am I going to restore my photo then because we all know how messy iPhoto manages its files structure?!

There's nothing excluded in my Time Machine's Option except it's own backup drive. My iPhoto is 7.02 part of iLife '08.

Any clues please?

besson3c · Nov 30, 2007, 12:23 AM

I was able to get network backups to work after invoking the defaults command to enable support for unsupported drives. However, the backups just seem too slow to be worth my while. I was thinking of tweaking it by excluding some more stuff or perhaps even playing around with CPU priorities, but after a while it just seemed like it was just backing something up all the time.

I suppose an hourly backup of my entire home directory is just a little excessive. That may be one of the reasons why network backups are not fully supported...

I'd use TM if there was a way to only get it to backup my Desktop every hour, and to do my home directory once a day, or something like that. I could even go with Desktop once a day, home directory once a week.

If anybody discovers a way to customize TM in this respect, please let me know!

lasbahamas · Nov 30, 2007, 01:39 PM

I had no problem backing up to external firewire drive with time machine on my intel laptop. But trying the same thing on my power pc iMac propduced a backup failure after about 5gb.

I read the apple tech note about partitioning, but the drive won't unmount to erase and repartition - says files are in use.

any suggestgions?

TETENAL · Nov 30, 2007, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

I suppose an hourly backup of my entire home directory is just a little excessive.

Really? How much data do you produce in one hour?