[Ham-Mac] OS X Time Machine Question

[Rick Prather]

I don't know what Boyd means by unreadable backups.

I guess he means outside of TM.  There are utilities around that will  
do that if you insist on not looking at the files with TM.

Dick,  follow the instructions I sent and you will be able to view  
that invisible folder.

I have had excellent luck with TM ever since Leopard came out.   The  
only glitch is an error message saying it couldn't do a backup once a  
month or so and the next backup takes fine.   I think that comes from  
an activity like syncing going on while TM is working.  It really is  
not a problem since you only lose one hourly backup and it happens  
very infrequently.

I do keep a Superduper clone that I do once a week for off site  
storage and to have a bootable clone.

Rick
K6LE



On 8/1/2009, at 10:46 , Dick Kriss wrote:

> Boyd,
>
> I don't really trust the Time Machine for anything. That is why I  
> have and
> rely on SuperDuper for a readable and bootable backup.
>
> I have just been trying to see if the Time Machine will let me  
> Restore the
> hidden .fldigi folder and that's what prompted the discussion.
>
> Sill no joy..... but the SuperDuper saved my six (again).
>
> Dick
>
>
> On Saturday8/1/09 11:22 AM, "BOYD and LESLIE Moore" <tbmoore9 at verizon.net 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> The fact that TM produces "unreadable" backups, I don't like it.  I
>> would rather do it the unix way,
>> See
>> http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
>> for an example.  The backup can also be bootable directly, which can
>> be a good advantage if the main disk crashes.
>>
>> Boyd/ KO4WK
>>
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