Time machine behaviour.

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Andy Matheson - 31 Oct 2007 23:16 GMT

I have an iMac and a Macbook. Both running Leopard.
I connected my external drive to my iMac and Time Machine seems to work
reliably.
I disconnected the drive and connected it to my Macbook, which also seemed
to do its initial backup with no probs.
I reconnected the drive to my iMac and then tried to connect to it over the
network from my Macbook. Time Machine sees it, but wants to do another full
initial backup, which is just going to take forever.
Is this to be expected?
Andy.

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Robert Moir - 31 Oct 2007 23:18 GMT

>I have an iMac and a Macbook. Both running Leopard.
> I connected my external drive to my iMac and Time Machine seems to work
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> full initial backup, which is just going to take forever.
> Is this to be expected?

I would think so, I can see why a network volume might be seen as totally
different from a local volume, and I can also see why looking at the data
backed up would be discarded as a solution...

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Andy Matheson - 31 Oct 2007 23:29 GMT

>>I have an iMac and a Macbook. Both running Leopard.
>> I connected my external drive to my iMac and Time Machine seems to work
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> different from a local volume, and I can also see why looking at the data
> backed up would be discarded as a solution...

That's a bit of a bummer, doing an inital backup of my Macbook over the
network is gong to take something like 17 hours. Nice.

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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / October 2007

Time machine behaviour.