preparing for Time Machine

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> On 13-Oct-2007, at 19:34, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> That's interesting  because I had read you could only backup to a  
> single volume - a big limitation (for me, at least, since I tend to  
> fill up big volumes, so backing up a big volume would be problematic).

of course, we really need to wait for Leopard to ship to know the  
details, but this article discusses Time Machine:

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/12/ 
road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_time_machine.html&page=1;%20title=>

"It is possible to set up multiple disks for use with Time Machine,  
making it easy to create an offsite archive. It only backs up to one  
drive at a time however. "


>
> I would be surprised if this had changed (please provide reference  
> if you have one) because of the way HFS works (although they have  
> made changes to HFS+, I believe, for Time Machine).
>
> One of the features of ZFS is "logical volume management" wherein  
> you can make multiple volumes (on multiple drives) look like one  
> big volume, which would be good for Time Machine.
>
> For most users though, who don't use (or change as LuKreme pointed  
> out) a fraction of their disk space it will be ok though.
>
> Cheers,
> Ashley.
>
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> Ashley Aitken
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