Category: time machine

News and Notes - 1

15 November, 2007 (18:07) | mac, quicksilver, time machine, vmware fusion | No comments

Just some things I noticed online today. First Leopard Update released.  Here is the fix list. Quicksilver top 10 plugins. Use rsync to emulate Time Machine VMWare Fusion 1.1 released.  Release notes here.

Time Machine with Virtual Machine Files

15 November, 2007 (10:48) | mac, time machine, vmware fusion | No comments

One problem I ran into with my new Time Machine setup was that my large virtual machine disk files were aggressively being backed every time they changed.  Since each virtual machine is extremely large (multiple GBs each) and since Time Machine backs up an entire file each time it changes, I was quickly eating up [...]

Time Machine Internals

13 November, 2007 (21:08) | mac, time machine | No comments

This is a great review about Time Machine as part of a larger (enormous) review of Leopard.  In typical ars technica fashion, it dives deep into how Time Machine actually works for those into that sort of thing.

Time Machine

13 November, 2007 (20:51) | mac, time machine | 2 comments

So I finally got around to setting up Time Machine.  I actually needed to get a supported external hard drive first.  I ended up buying the Lacie D2 HD Quadra.  This drive boasts 500 GBs of storage, 7200 RPMs, and USB2, Firewire 400/800, and eSata interfaces.  Setting up Time Machine was as easy as advertised.  [...]