backup

[Roger Howard]

Charles Dyer wrote:
>
> On 30 Oct 2007, at 23:40:26, Hex Star wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/07, David Evenson <dave at openedgemedia.com> wrote:
>>> Except it (presumably) works. Small detail.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't seen reports of Time Machine not working, I guess I'm just
>> not looking hard enough...
>
> My copy of Leopard arrived just in time for me to set up my home 
> machine during lunch. (Yes, it was a rather long lunch, but hey...) 
> and I fired up Time Machine on a nice newly formatted external 
> FireWire drive. 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!. 
Weird -- I was a little concerned and haven't abandoned my existing 
backup tools yet, but I dropped in more disk capacity so I could try out 
TimeMachine in parallel.

My main workstation at home worked out to 670GB of data for TimeMachine 
in the first backup and this completed in something around 8 hours, 
which given all the bottlenecks it had to contend with is not too 
shabby. In the time since that first backup it's been keeping up well, 
even with tens of gigs of changes to capture each day (mainly large 
image files).

Just my experience, YMMV,

R