<![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off? - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off? - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:52 EDT Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:52 EDT http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4940269 I'd like to see Apple implement an option to schedule Time Machine backups by hour and date. As well I'd like to see Apple implement the option to set the maximum storage space alloted for Time Machine backups. Otherwise at least make it possible for Leopard's Disk Utility to partition the internal Time Capsule drive with out having to physically remove it and format the drive manually thus avoiding voiding the Time Capsule warranty. After all I would like to have 500 GB available to Time Machine and the other 500 GB for Final Cut Studio and Maya library/scene files. Then I could use an external connected hard drive (same 1 Terabyte storage size) to archive the Time Capsule internal drive in case of drive failure. Basically providing a RAID like solution.

imagine-engine

]]> 4:372908:c4940269 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:30:52 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4935269 @nutbastard: and double negatives aren't used in modern english. thanks for making my point for me.

Paradise

]]> 4:372908:c4935269 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:09:05 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4929775 Yeah ok schedule your backups and don't do them every hour! Use Arconis or Handy Backup or something else that's not banging away on your system every hour. If you need it every hour just save the things you're working on, the chance on any given hour of your system crashing to pieces, destroying all your work isn't worth being slowed down that much.

Hello_Newman

]]> 4:372908:c4929775 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:55:25 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4915526 @ krizoitz

You obviously have never used a mac. There are many other options for backing up OS X. Back up is one example that is free. No one is "forced" to use Time Machine, but most people choose to because it is seamless and easy to use. I agree that it could be more configurable, but it works great for the majority of mac users' needs.

justinpe

]]> 4:372908:c4915526 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50:37 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910757 @dabub:

My typo - it came as Raid 0 but I set it to Raid 1 when I initialized it (Maxtor 1 Touch III Turbo)

Means I loose half the capacity, but gain the resiliency with the two drives.

MINI Driver

]]> 4:372908:c4910757 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:44:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910674 i just wish it was smart enough to not run when I have a VPN tunnel up.

matto

]]> 4:372908:c4910674 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:34:24 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910602 While it may sound like overkill, I have a cron running on my linux box at work that backs up my development directories every 10 minutes. Backups are one of those things that nobody cares about until they need. When you are in the groove loosing an entire hour of code is brutal, let alone a day. Having been burnt in the past, I am OK with default settings that are aggressive.

crombenevolant

]]> 4:372908:c4910602 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:23:49 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910502 I stopped using time machine because
a) I dont delete files that I need. Its that simple. I also save stuff as copies before I mess with it.
b) it slowed down my computer every hour
c) its not bootable. It doesnt do much good when my HD fries (the reason to have a backup) and I have to wait for a new one, then install the OS, then access my files. I need my files NOW when doo doo happens.
d) superduper just copies my drive, I can get what I need, I can plug and play from the backup drive no problem
e) I still dont see why you need Time machine unless you are the type of person who says "OOPS! I deleted that important file! OOPS! Ive been working on this for two hours and I just realized I screwed up at the beginning! OOPS! I deleted all my contacts!

rant off

redkamel

]]> 4:372908:c4910502 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:10:26 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910432 @iFlingPoo: I think you were too thick to get the joke.

Sucks it doesnt let you change the options but then again Macs are designed for people who want stuff to "just work" and cant handle the complicated setups and options that come with a PC. If they let you change them most likely youd just screw it up and then have the same gripes most mac users have about PCs.

archercc

]]> 4:372908:c4910432 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:29 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910416 WOOT VISTA FTW!!!!!!! YEAHHHHH. lol. jk. jk.
I think I would get very annoyed if i had to back up my pc every hour. Especially since I dont save or change alot on my pc.


G3ttin-H3r-D0n3

]]> 4:372908:c4910416 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:59:46 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910376 Geez, I set mine to backup every 30 minutes.

rfaulder

]]> 4:372908:c4910376 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:55:38 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910102 There is a tool on freewaremac that will allow you to change that to a schedule of YOUR choosing.
For instance, 3:00am on Monday. Once a week. Only.
Happiness has returned to my home.

munan

]]> 4:372908:c4910102 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:22:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4910077 @nutbastard: Ok, I'm a little late to the party (that whole not posting at work thing); but I would like to state, for the record, that I think that it should be free range. Like the chickens.

I refuse to flick that Time Machine switch thingy: I don't let machines auto-update -- _I_ decide what updates and when; and by the same token, I won't let the machine decide what, and when, to back up. If you cede all control to the decisions of some coder somewhere, you deserve everything that happens to you. If _I_ f*ck up, I'm willing to live with it. I won't ever let the machine tell me what to do. Unless her name is Alice.

Mandatory_Field

]]> 4:372908:c4910077 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:19:13 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909985 @Geisrud:

the phrase "lighten up" comes to mind.

Camperton

]]> 4:372908:c4909985 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:08:51 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909842 Mine run fine on my MacBook Pro to a USB drive. Haven't noticed a problem yet.

jim

]]> 4:372908:c4909842 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:51:55 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909602 superduper daily bootable backup FTW....(when I'm not around)

wfbnadador

]]> 4:372908:c4909602 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:25:53 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909450 all apple products are militantly controlled. thankfully there are hackers to save our day.

tastybytes

]]> 4:372908:c4909450 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:39 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909119 (good god people finally stopped talking about reins)
(color me embarrassed)

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4909119 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:43:06 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4909016 there are about 17 apps out there that let you change the preference file needed to change the Time Machine backup frequency. with an app it might take 5 seconds to change. without an app... possibly as much time as 30 seconds to make the change.

hourly i find is fine for backing up to another internal SATA drive. barely noticeable at all.

on machines that backup to external drives or over the network i find that every 12 hours works perfectly fine.

the only time Time Machine has annoyed me was when i was working on some large audio files and it kicked in... if only there was a giantass OFF button i could have used...

the lack of true boolean rules in both Spotlight and Time Machine are *incredibly* annoying however. i'd much rather be able to set up what i *do* want to have backed up or searched than have to add all the things i *don't* want backed up or searched.

x23

]]> 4:372908:c4909016 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:36:38 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908842 @vicsells: Eh...I was using XP until a few days ago too, and I thought I'd never switch.
Now I'm on Vista, and to tell you the truth, it's not nearly as bad as people make it seem. I haven't had a single issue with it yet, including opening excel/word/whatever documents we had on XP.


shenanigans61

]]> 4:372908:c4908842 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:25:48 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908762 Ha! ...only Apple.

madoublet

]]> 4:372908:c4908762 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:20:26 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908725 @shenanigans61: Actually you COULD care less. If you truly couldn't care less you wouldn't have wasted your time submitting a comment ;)

bregalad

]]> 4:372908:c4908725 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:18:41 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908628 HAHA I think its funny that Vista users aren't the only ones having problems with their OS. Seems time machine's buggy too! Me? I still use XP and am happier than mac and vista people

vicsells

]]> 4:372908:c4908628 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:14:02 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908624 Where's the option for "I have a Mac of appropriate power and configuration for handling large files and I see no slowdown", eh?

Seriously. If you've got a Mac Pro, install another drive. If you don't, get a fast USB 2.0 drive. If it *still* isn't fast enough, you need a newer or higher end Mac.

It's not their fault if you're trying to use a spoon as a snow shovel. Some jobs are simply too big for some machines.

Sheesh.

fyngyrz

]]> 4:372908:c4908624 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:13:51 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908431 @berribrand: Yes, it does. Did I imply otherwise? Hm. Must've been my very evil twin. He likes to post without thinking sometimes...

Still, if you "give free reign" to something, as in "I give you free reign to manage the department as you see fit", I still assert that that phrasing does not make sense.

metrophage

]]> 4:372908:c4908431 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:03:48 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908408 Time Machine started off fairly quick and unobtrusive. Then the external HD I was using for Time Machine filled up, as it was destined to do eventually. Then I really started to notice the thrashing of the drive heads as TM deleted old backups and wrote new ones to a drive with virtually no free space. I can imagine what little free space was available was highly fragmented. Evidently users are expected to backup to drives several times larger than the data they're backing up and periodically wipe them and start from scratch.

bregalad

]]> 4:372908:c4908408 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:02:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908382 @Johnny Chimpo: Yes, Time Machine allows you to ignore any folders or volumes you don't want to include in the backup. If it were me having this issue, I would put my giant video files in a single parent folder that gets ignored by Time Machine.

Petezah

]]> 4:372908:c4908382 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:01:09 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4908115 Which option is for "I use Vista backup and I backup when I damn well please, but I'm starting to think it would be easier to move all my stuff into an archive regularly instead of keeping it in both places since Vista is eateding up my 80GB hard disk."

cyborgtroy

]]> 4:372908:c4908115 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907974 @iFlingPoo: I'd say "consumer whorism"...but you know, that's just me :)

shenanigans61

]]> 4:372908:c4907974 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:44:19 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907947 Count me in the "slowdowns annoy me" (or worse) camp. However, I'm running on an old PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) with a 1 GHz processor upgrade, i.e., a machine just barely fast enough to run Leopard (and even then not officially supported). And I'm backing up over the network.

So, what computers are being used by those who are/are not bothered by the hourly backups? Is it just fine on newer Intel Macs? Is it fine with a local disk?

wwalkersd

]]> 4:372908:c4907947 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:43:19 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907942 @nutbastard: Nah...when I say it, I say "I couldn't care less..." because I usually couldnt.
So, per se, I couldn't care less about the retarded internet fights like this one.


shenanigans61

]]> 4:372908:c4907942 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:43:13 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907937 @grammar-nazis: When you're not on the Internet complaining about grammar, do you heckle toddlers for sucking at calculus? User your infinite wisdom and cure cancer or something.

mrAnderson

]]> 4:372908:c4907937 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:42:58 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907878 @GoatMonkey: Uh, Time Capsule works on both Windows and OSX, what does getting a PC have to do with it?

Does the very large "On/Off" switch control your consumer whorism or cerebral functioning?

iFlingPoo

]]> 4:372908:c4907878 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:40:49 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907739 So, I haven't decided whether to jump in the Mac vs PC or reign vs rein fight.

Maybe I'll just read another post.

kwicherbichin

]]> 4:372908:c4907739 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:44 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907707 You want some real fun? Try getting two Macs to back up to the same disk. Bonus points if you can also use that same disk for other stuff.

Just getting it configured doesn't count -- you need to do enough backups to fill the disk. That's when the fun really starts!

bonafidebob

]]> 4:372908:c4907707 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:35:50 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907658 I was getting pretty annoyed with Time Machine, so I downloaded the "fix" that was posted over at Lifehacker and it works great. However, I don't necessarily need daily backups. So, I'm thinking about using something different like Carbon Copy Cloner.

drwedge

]]> 4:372908:c4907658 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:34:14 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907586 @dantaylor08: the same could be said for every version of windows. or adobe software. or every other piece of software that people bitch about on every tech blog on the face of the earth.
it has nothing to do with being an apple fanboy, idiot. that troll is really really weak.

firesign

]]> 4:372908:c4907586 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:32:25 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907566 @nutbastard: Well, yeah :) But TRUTHINESS is so... so... subjective sometimes.

And to everyone talking common usage, yeah, you right. But I don't care. I stand behind my words. Actually, I'm standing next to them. But not too close. I have a feeling they're about to get run over...

metrophage

]]> 4:372908:c4907566 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:31:53 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907502 Jungle Disk and Amazon s3 FTW! I haven't even looked at time machine on my Macbook. It costs money every month for S3 but if your house burned down or your computer gear stolen your backups inside your house aren't going to get you very far are they?

nthpro

]]> 4:372908:c4907502 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:48 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907500 @PennyG: "As many have said, if you are going to correct someone's grammar, usage, etc., you had better be right. That is a weak defense of an originally ignorant correction to an actually correct term. "

Um. Yeah. Welcome to the Internet.
We get a lot of that here.


hakubak

]]> 4:372908:c4907500 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:44 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907497 John Webster here.

@Wilson Rothman: No, I think he was making a pun.

You know, because ... um... Mac rules...

ideaman2020

]]> 4:372908:c4907497 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:41 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907494 - I use a drive connected to the USB hub.
- Backing up over the network, hurts those you love.
- Just turn it on when you sleep.

I used to just run a bash command, via terminal, that backed up the folders/files I wanted. I would run it manually, but I could have just done it as a script/cron process. I'm sure most Mac users don't know their way around a shell, let alone futzing with Cron, so Time Machine is the mindless fix.

vagrant

]]> 4:372908:c4907494 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:35 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907424 "free reign" is redundant. In the usual sense, a monarch "reigns". In a monarchy, sovereignty (note ...reign...) is in the monarch. The monarch can do whatever he or she wants, i.e. the king is never wrong, and don't give me any crap about England, etc. If you use the phrase: "free reign", you sound like a moron. Just like if you say: "I could care less" or "for all intensive purposes". The phrase: "free rein" means that the software program (horse) is doing whatever it wants, whenever it wants to do it, without input from the rider (user). Free REIN is very appropriate. As many have said, if you are going to correct someone's grammar, usage, etc., you had better be right. That is a weak defense of an originally ignorant correction to an actually correct term.

PennyG

]]> 4:372908:c4907424 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:27:10 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907406 Time Machine definitely needs some more user-configurable settings. I personally don't like how I can't alter the backup schedule. Also, I kinda wish I could get rid of the super old backup files. Though, I do understand how this may not be possible with an incremental backup.

newgalactic

]]> 4:372908:c4907406 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:26:49 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907405 @regexp: You are a doofus.

What is the likelihood of both the source media and backup media failing at the same time? Actually, it is greater than zero, and if you use a RAID 0 array, it is much greater than zero... exponentially greater than a single disk failing, or (1-(1-(failrate %))^(number of disks)).

The whole point of a backup is to secure your data. Using a single disk is risky, but using a striped array is silly. I know math is hard and stuff, but think before you write.

getz76

]]> 4:372908:c4907405 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:26:48 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907363 @Wilson Rothman: that's part of the joy of Giz - being lectured to by folk who know cr$p about it, and yet still be respected for it.

Actually Engadget beat us to it - sorry Nutty.

flyboy

]]> 4:372908:c4907363 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:25:41 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907280 I always associated the phrase "free rein" with horses. As in, if you let go of the reins, the horse will go where likes.

I could be wrong.

I'm a man,
but I can change,
if I have to,
I guess.




hakubak

]]> 4:372908:c4907280 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:23:06 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907211 @MINI Driver:

Wow, backup to a Raid 0? Thats almost like an oxymoron, or just the same without the oxy. I think your source is probably more secure then the backup.

dabub

]]> 4:372908:c4907211 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:21:14 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907187 Yeah it really sucks how Apple forces you to use TimeMachine as its clearly the only backup solution for MacOS X. Time machine is supposed to offer a seemless easy to use backup experience, if you find yourself needing more control, just like you'd upgrade from iMovie to Final Cut, you need to upgrade to a different backup solution.

krizoitz

]]> 4:372908:c4907187 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:20:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4907066 @nutbastard: Free reign is wrong. It is "free rein." That is the correct usage. It is a metaphor.

However, to give Nut credit where due, "free reign" does make sense, as applied, if you use the "reign" as a noun and not an intransitive verb, and you use "free" in the legal meaning of "unencumbered by". In that sense, the program has unencumbered authority to back up every hour no matter what else is happening. Hence, it has free reign.

However, the "phrase" "free rein" refers to a lack of guidance or dictate. "Free reign" is a convenient and probably unintentional corruption of the original phrase.

That's my $.02.

makanai

]]> 4:372908:c4907066 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:16:22 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906887 Meanwhile, wonderful words like "callipygous" wither and die...

hakubak

]]> 4:372908:c4906887 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:11:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906883 @nutbastard: From this day forth, I declare the dictionary to be Open Source. Let the people have free rein to the words.. Err.. Free reign.. Umm.. I mean...

ripfire4

]]> 4:372908:c4906883 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:11:13 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906882 @Topcat: Time machine works the same way, only its incremental as well. So, you can have autosave, infinite undo, and incremental copies! although, maybe I shouldn't be feeding your neuroses.

ludwigk

]]> 4:372908:c4906882 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:11:12 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906853 Once an hour? Why does it need to that frequency to store A&F links and Katie Melua tracks?

Sleeper_Service

]]> 4:372908:c4906853 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:10:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906801 Time Machine hasn't slowed me down much at all, but I do wish it was more customizable.

@Wilson Rothman: Do you really need to reboot? That seems like a waste. Why not just quit Time Machine through Force Quit or through the Activity Monitor?

kilgub

]]> 4:372908:c4906801 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:09:19 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906740 Hopefully ZFS will catch on soon and will be implemented in linux without FUSE. (Damn licensing restrictions)

illiniguy

]]> 4:372908:c4906740 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:07:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906739 I don't have a problem with the hourly backups. But my TM drive is directly connected to my iMac and, for some reason, it spins up every 15 minutes slowing everything to a crawl.

bung

]]> 4:372908:c4906739 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:07:30 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906715 @Johnny Chimpo: You can choose to leave out as little, or as much of your system as you choose. For instance, I leave out all OS files because 1) I can just reinstall my OS and 2) I don't have faith that the restored OS files will work anyways. It's even a checkbox option.

The way the Time Machine backup works is like this:

Mac OS X has a service called mds, which sweeps your filesystem for directory access/changes, and logs these all the time. Since it only queries on the directory level, it is very fast and efficient. Once an hour, a backup service looks through this log, and determines if any directories' files have changed. If they have, it queries those specific directories for files with modification dates in the last hour, then syncs those changes to the Time Machine, creating an incremental backup.

In this way, you do not specify what to back up, Time Machine knows what has changed, and backs it up for you, but only as needed.

It doesn't bother me because what I do is each weekend is, I connect the Time Machine drive for about 10 hours, and let it do another weekly incremental backup on its own. Then I turn it off and it sits disconnected till next weekend. My home machine is a digital hub, so its mainly just music and photos and such, and a weekly incremental backup is sufficient.

ludwigk

]]> 4:372908:c4906715 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:07:05 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906700 irregardless just means you are full of regard, according to Chansen branded double negatives. I've also seen free rein and free reign used in novels. Seems like its an author's choice situation.

thechansen

]]> 4:372908:c4906700 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:06:29 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906691 The problem with Time Capsule is that its pretty near impossible for you to kill the backup when it starts. I also had instances in which I had to reboot my machine. And when it starts up over wireless its pretty near impossible to do anything that requires network connectivity. I've gone back to a USB drive.

@getz76

Ah - what is the likely hood of both your laptop HD and your backup HD failing at the same time? That's right - close to zero so you argument makes no sense.

regexp

]]> 4:372908:c4906691 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:06:02 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906682 @metrophage: Actually, Merriam-Webster introduces new words annually. "Ginormous" is now a word because people voted it as their favorite word not in the dictionary. So, yes, common usage can make it so.

berribrand

]]> 4:372908:c4906682 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:05:42 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906672 ... wiener.

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4906672 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:05:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906632 @metrophage: boooo!

Truthiness is a word.

Don't wouldn't be a word either, but I kinda like it. Common Usage is how our language is formed. We speak the words and THEN they write it in that big red book of yours. The chicken came first in this instance.

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4906632 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:04:04 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906626 I don't necessarily understand the logic in backing things up once per hour, and prefer the way Windows Volume Shadow Copy works: only back things up when they change, and do it at the same time. I get the safety net of periodic application autosaves, as well as my own neurotic saving which builds the shadow copy. System backups of things that don't change can be done when I'm not around, thanks.

Topcat

]]> 4:372908:c4906626 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:03:50 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906545 @Paradise:
no, "irregardless" is a double negative which breaks down to "in regards to".

yet everyone claims they could care less.....

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4906545 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:01:38 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906511 @sgodun: And clearly you don't recognize sarcasm.

Geisrud

]]> 4:372908:c4906511 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:39 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906425 @metrophage: actually that's how [retarded] "words" like "irregardless" became words.

Paradise

]]> 4:372908:c4906425 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:58:21 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906403 @metrophage:
"The phrase "free reign" doesn't make sense, really."
yes it does, if reign (power to control) were restricted, free reign would be unrestricted power.

Right or wrong, I declare that "free reign" has sufficient truthiness:

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4906403 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:57:34 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906361 um. cron? can't you write a quick cron job or 'automator' task to choose 'backup now' for you and thus disable time machine's backup but still retain some automation?

Then again I may be oversimplifying.

x40sw0n

]]> 4:372908:c4906361 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:56:29 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906350 I haven't seen much of a slowdown on my MBP 2.33 when backing up to an attached disk. Even Civ IV, resource hog that it is, doesn't hiccough when Time Machine kicks in.

I'll pay attention to my CPU meter next time I back up.

jk

]]> 4:372908:c4906350 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:56:15 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906159 @nutbastard: Don't Google, try a dictionary: [www.merriam-webster.com] . No matches. Just becuase it has "common usage" doesn't make it "right". The phrase "free reign" doesn't make sense, really. If everybody starts using "kewl" does that make it right?

Just sayin'...

metrophage

]]> 4:372908:c4906159 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:51:01 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906156 ronnsprocket: I had to exchange my macbook due to some keyboard problems, and when I first booted the new machine I just selected "restore from time machine" and it went off and did it. worked perfectly.

LowFuel

]]> 4:372908:c4906156 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:50:55 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906131 The solution is to offload the hourly backups to the Blue Gene super computer that is surely in the next room, because you are working on nuclear physics research. Otherwise, why the hell do you need hourly backups? It's either paranoid or self-important.

Which is more of an inconvenience, hourly slowdown, or re-doing the work you did since last night's backup?

kaneshadow

]]> 4:372908:c4906131 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:50:17 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906121 @nat lyon: Exactly. I can't really see how hourly back-ups are nessecary anyhow. I mean honestly...Backing up your system once a day should be waaaay more then enough.

Granted...I'm sure some artsy fartsy tech dynamo's wouldn't have it any other way. But for the average folk, once a day FTW.

Not that I care either way...I have a PC and rarely if ever back up my data...Just be careful what you download and have antirvirus installed. That's my solution.

SkoGoody

]]> 4:372908:c4906121 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:50:00 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906106 honestly it doesnt bother me at all. it takes about a minute, and most of the time I dont even notice that it happened. Im on a laptop which stays in sleep mode when I'm not using it - if it was set to once a day, I might not ever get backed up.

Still I dont see why they cant at least make it configurable.

LowFuel

]]> 4:372908:c4906106 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:49:26 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906098 once an hour is too much. especically for a laptop. im always closing my shit up and opening it back up.

sidenote. anybody reinstalled leopard and used time machine backup effectively?

ronnsprocket

]]> 4:372908:c4906098 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:49:16 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906095 @Camperton: I see you have quite the history of contributing thought provoking and, in general, quality comments. Including:

I don't like this program.
The phrase "you're not helping" comes to mind.
Great idea.
But does it play Doo.. Oh never mind.
Douche On/Douche Off
I used to love Sharper Image.
Shut up me.
I nominate this for Gizmodo's worst post of the year.
This is pretty sad.
The only way this even remotely fits on Gizmodo is that they are available to buy online.
Is this a gadget website or a business web site.
fts -- fuck this shit.
I want a Pootie Tang ipod.
That piece is one of the most obnoxious things I've ever seen.

So, look, we're all just trying to have fun here.

Geisrud

]]> 4:372908:c4906095 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:49:09 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906056 I think it might be an over the air issue, I have an iMac and my HD is connected via USB. No slow downs here, plus I upgraded to 4GB of RAM. :-D

Late_Night

]]> 4:372908:c4906056 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:47:55 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4906017 @MINI Driver: Backup to a RAID 0 array? That is like putting out a fire with gasoline.

getz76

]]> 4:372908:c4906017 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:47:06 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905948 But, yes wilson, yer right, it doesn't show up in the dictionary.

i got it the other way because there weren't you know, horses all over the place when i grew up.

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4905948 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:45:13 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905914 I just turn on my external HD whenever I want to back up.

justinpe

]]> 4:372908:c4905914 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:44:17 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905837 @Johnny Chimpo: Yeah, you can choose to exclude directories and specific files.

I'm only backing up my home directory, and exclude a few things: My Lightroom database file, my Downloads directory and a temp directory where I put big files, well, temporarily to do stuff that don't need to be backed up. With this setting, I never suffer from the hourly backup and I am only aware of Time Machine backing up because I see the LED of my external HD lighting up.

Grodesh

]]> 4:372908:c4905837 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:41:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905824 @nutbastard: more like soul superpower.

[en.wikipedia.org]

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4905824 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:41:08 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905818 @sgodun: Lit up!

continue....

shenanigans61

]]> 4:372908:c4905818 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:40:54 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905784 I don't think I'm ever actually working on anything important enough to really have to care about an hourly backup. Oh noes! My computer crashed in the middle of me typing up a witty comment on Gizmodo! Whatever am I to do? I can't remember what I was typing!

male roof blower (CFB)

]]> 4:372908:c4905784 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:40:02 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905763 I quickly got tired of the hourly/random sluggishness. I've turned off auto backups and just hit the "back up now" button once a day. Problem solved.

nat lyon

]]> 4:372908:c4905763 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:39:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905750 Dang, that sucks, since, you know, Time Machine is the only backup software that exists on the Mac platform and all...

krizoitz

]]> 4:372908:c4905750 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:39:15 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905723 @Geisrud: Damn, and I was led to believe this whole time that His Jobsness made infallible products.

Well, then clearly you are an idiot who needs to blame others for your own inability to think for yourself.

sgodun

]]> 4:372908:c4905723 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905716 @nutbastard: ooooh! in your face ROTHMAN..... are you gonna let him talk about your language like that?

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4905716 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:22 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905712 It's a good thing Macs just work.

Ounce

]]> 4:372908:c4905712 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:38:17 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905661 @MINI Driver: for real. and my HDD is in a corner with all of my other network crap/ wires/ flashy lights. there's no issue with vibrating my desk that way. slows down the network still.

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4905661 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:45 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905651 lol i love all y'all apple fanboys. "All you have to do is go out of your way to fix something that has a crappy design and it will be the perfect product!".

dantaylor08

]]> 4:372908:c4905651 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:30 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905646 [www.bostonreview.net]

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4905646 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:24 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905640 i don't have any problems with it. i take my little macbook to school with me every day and when i get to my apartment at night, i plug in my usb hub to synch/charge my ipods and my trusty usb drive is right there.

the little picture in the corner spins for a few seconds and i'm set! works great for me!

gporter

]]> 4:372908:c4905640 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:10 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905600 @Wilson Rothman:
google google google....

I've found examples of the phrase both ways. No holier than thou hat here.

"Even tasks that seem fun-resistant can become more satisfying if you give free reign to your imagination."

"As horses and carriages have become rare as a means of transport, the metaphor controling or restricting their movement with the help of reins has lost its transparency. The homophone reign, in the sense of the exercise of power, is in the process of supplanting it.

The thoroughness of the re-interpretation in the occurrences of the rein > reign substitution varies. Free reign is entering mainstream usage. Reigns of power, on the other hand, only makes sense superficially; the plural remains unaccounted for. "

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4905600 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:35:20 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905538 @Wilson Rothman: oooh! busted!

Where's the radial button for I went back to Tiger after Leopard let me down? (I wish I could move on.... :( )

-or-

I use that Time Machine scheduler hack, because I'm cool?

oo0cyst0oo

]]> 4:372908:c4905538 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:33:35 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905424 As most of the issues described are a 'feature' of back-up over wifi...

My TimeMachine backs up to a 1TB raid 0 array connected via FireWire 800

No speed hit on my Mac Pro - it's definitely a better solution.

MINI Driver

]]> 4:372908:c4905424 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:30:36 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905332 No time machine used in my place. I don't have my external drive on at all times because its loud and it vibrates my desk, and frankly it's annoying.

Carbon Copy Cloner ftw.

xtremesniper

]]> 4:372908:c4905332 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:27:58 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905326 You could use File Hamster to keep folders syncronized so you don't need a backup.

But it's not a Windows PC, isn't?

LOL

aec007

]]> 4:372908:c4905326 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:27:45 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905309 Your Mac slows down? What speed is slower than glacial? (Before the flames start, don't assume I'm using Windows)

hakubak

]]> 4:372908:c4905309 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:27:16 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905296 uhh there is a button at the top right on the bar that says "stop backup". Why not try hitting that when you don't want it to backup at the time..

knome

]]> 4:372908:c4905296 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:27:03 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905277 Hourly backups drive me bananas. Thanks for thhe hot lead on Time machine Editor. I've been wanting something like this. I was considering going back to CCC.

javed

]]> 4:372908:c4905277 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:26:30 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905262 @Geisrud:

That "joke" is old. Very old. It's right up there on the freshness scale with referring to the prequels as "little independent films you might have heard of".

Camperton

]]> 4:372908:c4905262 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:26:17 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905206 I actually have it back up to a USB drive that I only connect to for syncing music to my iPod and backing up. So I have a bit more control over it but I can see how that would be annoying.

nrylanb

]]> 4:372908:c4905206 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:24:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905177 @nutbastard: How 'bout checking a dictionary before pulling out that holier-than-thou hat?

Wilson Rothman

]]> 4:372908:c4905177 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:23:42 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905166 I don't like this program. Carbon Copy Cloner is a nice balance of simplicity and CONFIGURABILITY.

Camperton

]]> 4:372908:c4905166 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:23:27 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905162 Yes, we need tons of configuration options. Please, Windows-it-up for us.

Yeah, I've been slowed down too. But what are you doing in the time frame of an hour that takes so much time/resources to backup?

Tell you what, you shut it off, then come back and post another article about how the stupid Time Machine didn't automatically come back on and back your stuff up.

Grass is always greener.....

frankfurter

]]> 4:372908:c4905162 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:23:24 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905132 Oh, I forgot to mention I was in the process of setting it up when I opened up the Giz, and lo and behold, what was the top story? Problems with Time Machine! This could be a sign...

SonOfMagicFact

]]> 4:372908:c4905132 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:22:31 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905114 Steve Jobs just emailed me and told me to tell you, that if you didn't need it done this way Apple would not have created it this way.

bigjerm853

]]> 4:372908:c4905114 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:21:59 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905111 OFF - On Full Force
On - Operating now

HMMMMMM?


General Tsao aka Ivan the Impaler

]]> 4:372908:c4905111 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:21:50 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905089 @Munch420s: Nice. :)

shenanigans61

]]> 4:372908:c4905089 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:21:18 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905082 Holy mac -- ha! -- aroni! I was in the process of setting up Time Machine. Maybe I shouldn't?

SonOfMagicFact

]]> 4:372908:c4905082 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:21:06 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905058 @nutbastard: Actually he's got the right of it. Free rein comes from the term used when, back in the day, the drivers let the animals (horse, cattle, donkeys, whatever) determine the speed and pace of the vehicle.

twreckx

]]> 4:372908:c4905058 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:20:34 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4905016 i switch off and right click the menu bar to manual back up when i need to, its why its there

speakerwizard

]]> 4:372908:c4905016 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:19:32 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904971 I can't wait to get my Windows Home server... Just have to make sure to use 1 HDD so I don't get corrupted backups. I like how it runs on very low specs, only reason why I'm actually getting backup, otherwise it's too expensive for something I will not use often.

Sam_Zebian

]]> 4:372908:c4904971 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:18:17 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904922 Which mac be ye working on?

sisedi

]]> 4:372908:c4904922 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:16:46 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904882 I used to have problems with hourly backups. Now I just eat more fiber.

Munch

]]> 4:372908:c4904882 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:15:28 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904815 Depends on the rig your running and who you be. For my mom - TM is heaven sent. For me - it rubs me raw in that place between my arse and sack!

General Tsao aka Ivan the Impaler

]]> 4:372908:c4904815 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:13:35 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904793 Acronis Home 11 works well. ;)

getz76

]]> 4:372908:c4904793 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:12:48 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904775 Get a pc.

GoatMonkey

]]> 4:372908:c4904775 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:12:10 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904746 If you are worried about your data, RAID (5 please) and a nightly offsite backup will give you no more than 12-hours of lost production in the worst-case scenario. How much productivity are you losing by a poorly implemented backup process?

getz76

]]> 4:372908:c4904746 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:11:26 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904737 "so it's basically got free rein to backup whenever it damn well pleases,"

yer missing one of those pesky g's, "reign" is what you mean methinks.

nutbastard

]]> 4:372908:c4904737 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:11:02 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904721 When I lose data, I'll love it! Until then, sadly, I am stuck with the slight slow-downs.

sibertater

]]> 4:372908:c4904721 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:10:43 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904714 But it's awfully nice to be able to have it back up at 2am without having to click the button. That's kind of the point of this thing.

styrofoam

]]> 4:372908:c4904714 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:10:24 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904709 No I use Rebit on XP

flyboy

]]> 4:372908:c4904709 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:10:16 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904695 Wait, wait, wait; let me get this straight. you can't specify when you want your computer to backup? Are you kidding me? Can you at least specify the folders you want it to leave out of the backup?

Johnny Chimpo

]]> 4:372908:c4904695 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:55 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904679 Seriously? It is backup software with a giant ON/OFF switch. Just turn it off if it bothers you, then turn it on when you want to run a backup. You can even right-click on the icon and select "Back Up Now".

rockstarjoe

]]> 4:372908:c4904679 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:30 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904678 Edit pref files? Terminal voodoo? The "Off" slider? There's always a way around the hourly back ups.

thechansen

]]> 4:372908:c4904678 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:27 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904639 I never actually used Time Machine, so I guess I cant really say anything about it..... I guess.

Evangelion

]]> 4:372908:c4904639 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:08:29 EDT <![CDATA[Question of the Day: Do Hourly Time Machine Backups Piss You Off?]]> http://gizmodo.com/372908/question-of-the-day-do-hourly-time-machine-backups-piss-you-off#c4904624 Damn, and I was led to believe this whole time that His Jobsness made infallible products.

Geisrud

]]> 4:372908:c4904624 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:07:56 EDT