Time Machine (1 Viewer)

[hugh]

Is it possible to use Time Machine in reverse?

By that I mean: it's usually used to back up the contents of your desktop hard drive onto an external drive. I want to use it to periodically back up the content of my portable external hard drive onto my desktop hard drive.

 

[D0njo]

Time machines are inherently impossible for a number of reasons, this excludes the possibility of using one in reverse, to travel into the future.
YOU DON"T HAVE A TIME MACHINE.

 

[wageslave]

i thought this would be a much more exciting thread

 

[Wilbert]

Is it possible to use Time Machine in reverse?

By that I mean: it's usually used to back up the contents of your desktop hard drive onto an external drive. I want to use it to periodically back up the content of my portable external hard drive onto my desktop hard drive.

Don't think it is.

 

[hugh]

i thought this would be a much more exciting thread

I'm feeling a bit let down too now.

 

[simp]

Time Machine just makes incremental backups of an OSX Disk.

For other types of backups, use Super Duper:-
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

 

[hugh]

Time Machine just makes incremental backups of an OSX Disk.

For other types of backups, use Super Duper:-
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Thanks .. will try this out and see if it's what I need

 

[zebra heart attack]

Thanks .. will try this out and see if it's what I need

iMsafe is another good bet. let's you do synching to/from any folder/disk you like. saves a lot of space and makes backing up much faster. http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/imsafe/

 

[hugh]

iMsafe is another good bet. let's you do synching to/from any folder/disk you like. saves a lot of space and makes backing up much faster. http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/imsafe/

Just tried this out. Perfect .. just what I needed. Cheers!

 

[coast to coast]

I have another question about Time Machine....

If I back up my computer regularly, can I delete old back ups that are now months old?

I assume it only backs up the new stuff it finds each time, right? So does that mean if its working off the first back up to provide a full picture of the machine should everything go tits up?

Or does each back up consist "the whole machine" as it were?

I just want to know as its fairly eating into the space on my 1TB hard drive.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Goodbye]

As far as I know, the first back up is EVERYTHING hence it taking flippin ages. Every incremental backup is just the changes.
Say if all you worked on in one hour was a word document. Thats all that would be backed up.

 

[ernesto]

QUESTION:
if i get a big external NAS drive, and partition it for time machine, can i use one time machine thingy for two macs i want to keep sync'd or will it do two time machines / need two partitions? or is that where they try make me get a mobileme account or summat?

ta,

Ern

 

[ernesto]

QUESTION:
if i get a big external NAS drive, and partition it for time machine, can i use one time machine thingy for two macs i want to keep sync'd or will it do two time machines / need two partitions? or is that where they try make me get a mobileme account or summat?

ta,

Ern

BUMP