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    I hate time machine!!!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Thaenatos, Jan 25, 2011.

  1. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Wife tried 3 times to restore her data only to get frustrated (wouldnt let me play with it) and go to bed. 6 hours down the drain. Well I messed around and found that I too hate time machine as I had to make a new user and use migration assistant to do what she needed. Still waiting for it to finish up but Im much more hopeful then I was messing with time machine.

    Sorry for the slight rant but I just felt I needed to vent for my wife and her frustration. :p
     
    Thaenatos, Jan 25, 2011
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    blackmamba Notebook Evangelist

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    Tell'em why you mad!
     
    blackmamba, Jan 26, 2011
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    snork Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm kinda pissed off at it too right now. I've been using my Synology NAS as a Time Machine backup since I got my MBP. But now this month every time I try it, it fails?! At this point, I think I'm just gonna have to delete the Time Machine directory off my NAS and reconfigure the whole dang thing. Not a huge deal, just takes HOURS to do the initial first back-up.
     
    snork, Jan 28, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Time Machine is pretty picky when it come to using NAS's. I found it works best with a USB or firewire connected drive. I have some older Snap4500 and I can not get it use it. I use Carbon Copy for my backups. If I need to restore I will just clone the Image over to an external HD.
     
    blue68f100, Jan 28, 2011
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    lewdvig Notebook Virtuoso

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    I love time machine. it is easy to use and has saved my bacon twice when drives failed.

    I recently switched from a 500 capsule to using a dedicated 1 GB HDD for time machine in one of the SATA bays in my Mac Pro. It is very fast now!

    Hopefully we get USB3 or eSATA on the next MBP to speed this up.
     
    lewdvig, Jan 30, 2011
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  6. fredguy

    fredguy Notebook Consultant

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    I don't like it too. I use SuperDuper!
     
    fredguy, Feb 22, 2011
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  7. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    I'm a big fan of backing up critical files (my work, my media, installers for paid applications only, other content) manually. I can do a *guaranteed clean* system restore in about 45 minutes to an hour, and it only needs a few minutes of actual face time with the computer.

    Never really jumped onto automatic backups of the entire system for personal machines (even if they see work use). I could understand why it may be important for certain business machines, but that's it imo.
     
    masterchef341, Feb 22, 2011
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    ATC Notebook Deity

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    I've never had any issues with Time Machine. I've migrated to and from numerous Macs (both desktops and notebooks) and it's always been superb. FWIW I do recall, when migrating, TM would create an additional username/account for where it placed everything from the previous backup. It was a little confusing the first time I saw that but it worked flawlessly.
     
    ATC, Feb 22, 2011
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    c_henry Notebook Enthusiast

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    I love Time Machine, much better than the Migration Assistant, sorry to hear about your problems though.

    - Colin
     
    c_henry, Feb 22, 2011
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    snork Notebook Evangelist

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    This is generally my back-up philosophy as well. When I upgraded my HDD, Time Machine made swapping over so easy I figured I'd actually stick to using it. In my situation I have all my media (music/movies/photos) and app installers backed up to my NAS but let TM do a "system" back up and had it ignore the media (which is the bulk of the space). That way, when/if I need to restore, TM can put all my settings/apps back in just the way I had them and then I can just repopulate the media.
     
    snork, Feb 22, 2011
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