backup

[Shawn Erickson]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Larry Sica wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:40 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> On 30-Oct-2007, at 23:32, Charles Dyer wrote:
>>> It has now been well over 12 hours, and Time Machine has backed up  
>>> 115.11 GB out of 323.4.
>>>
>>> In the words of Jay Leno, that's not slow, that's FEMA slow. If  
>>> normal hourly backup time is of that order, I'll be turning Time  
>>> Machine off and going back to my old stand by, SuperDuper!.
>>
>> I have no idea how long Time Machine's hourly backups are because I  
>> have not, as yet, noticed it doing them.  That is to say, whatever  
>> it is giving up in speed is more than made up for by the fact that  
>> my machine continues to be usable and responsive the entire time.
>
>
> The initial backup did take a long time it seemed, but since then  
> it's not seemed to.  Also no issues with speed or anything here. I  
> was reading that apple discussion.  Seems like they all have that  
> LaCie drive hooked up.   Works great so far.

I have a Mac Pro with two 500 GiB drives mirrored (had that for a  
while for my in house online backup device) and time machine works  
very fast. I only know it is taking place by the slight amount of  
drive chatter I can hear.

Soon I will be bringing on my laptops to time machine to file shares  
from this same mirror... of course may have to look at getting two 750  
or  1TB drives to mirror soon :)

-Shawn