preparing for Time Machine

[Lawrence Sica]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>
> 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 am curious how this will work.  I just picked up 2 TB worth of  
external storage from newegg.  The LaCie Porsche drives.  I may end  
up splitting it into 2 1TB disk groups basically, one for data, one  
for backups.

--Larry


"there are three things to cry for in life - things that are lost,  
things that are found, and things that are magnificent.~douglas  
coupland"

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