preparing for Time Machine

[Chad Leigh]

On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> Not knowing the details of Time Machine's preferences and options,  
> I'd like to buy a drive BEFORE Leopard ships, so that the day I've  
> installed Leopard, I'm all set for Time Machine.
>
> Given I currently have separate external drives for photos, music  
> and videos (I have 5 drives hanging off my MBPro) - -and  
> considering I do a fair amount of audio and video editing  
> throughout the day, is there some size ratio between my working  
> data set (size) vs what I should plan for a backup drive?  I  
> suppose it all depends on how far back you want to keep file  
> changes in TM - so it's probably a dumb question, but ...
>
> I've read you can define multiple drives as backup drives for Time  
> Machine, so maybe I shouldn't worry about it.  But on day one, I'd  
> like to have something in place.
>
> Thoughts?


Bigger can't be worse :-)

Chad