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Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008Is there a way to make Time Machine back up more often?
Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. > Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. Google is your friend.  SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. You'll need to use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. Look up TimeMachineEditor on versiontracker. But I don't think you can set different schedules for different folders. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > > Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. > > Look up TimeMachineEditor on versiontracker. But I don't think you can > set different schedules for different folders. Thanks. This is for work at a newspaper and I only want to use Time Machine on the folder containing today's work. I already back up the whole boot drive every night with SuperDuper. >>> Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. >> Look up TimeMachineEditor on versiontracker. But I don't think you can [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the folder containing today's work. I already back up the whole boot > drive every night with SuperDuper. If you only want to back up one folder, you can exclude the others. But then, if only one folder is changing that's all TM will back up anyway. > >>> Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. > >> Look up TimeMachineEditor on versiontracker. But I don't think you can [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If you only want to back up one folder, you can exclude the others. But > then, if only one folder is changing that's all TM will back up anyway. Thanks, but i don't want to waste a bunch of disk space backing up the whole disk when i already have a bootable backup. And also, it'll take some time for it to determine that nothing else has changed. If it's looking only at one folder, everything should go much more efficiently. > > >>> Like every 5 minutes... just the documents folder. > > >> Look up TimeMachineEditor on versiontracker. But I don't think you can [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > some time for it to determine that nothing else has changed. If it's > looking only at one folder, everything should go much more efficiently. The entire disk is backed-up only the first time Time Machine is activated. TM doesn't "determine" that nothing has changed, it knows what has changed through a series of event records that are accumulated in the interval between backups. If you're really driven to backup only this one folder, you could create a a sparsebundle image, move the folder to the mounted image, and instruct TM to backup that volume and not the startup volume. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF > > Thanks, but i don't want to waste a bunch of disk space backing up the > > whole disk when i already have a bootable backup. And also, it'll take [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > what has changed through a series of event records that are accumulated > in the interval between backups. Yes, but I'd still have 100 GBs of disk space tied up with stuff i don't need. What's the point of that? > If you're really driven to backup only this one folder, you could create > a a sparsebundle image, move the folder to the mounted image, and > instruct TM to backup that volume and not the startup volume. Well, I wasn't planing on going to too much trouble with this. I will tell it to ignore the system files and applications folders and let it back up the rest. I am not familiar with sparsebundle images. > > > Thanks, but i don't want to waste a bunch of disk space backing up the > > > whole disk when i already have a bootable backup. And also, it'll take [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > tell it to ignore the system files and applications folders and let it > back up the rest. I am not familiar with sparsebundle images. See <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9673>. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF > > > Thanks, but i don't want to waste a bunch of disk space backing up the > > > whole disk when i already have a bootable backup. And also, it'll take [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Yes, but I'd still have 100 GBs of disk space tied up with stuff i don't > need. What's the point of that? As has already been mentioned, you can tell TM *not* to back up certain folders. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** |
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