preparing for Time Machine

[Ashley Aitken]

On 13-Oct-2007, at 19:34, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> 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).

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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