A Few Tips And Tricks For OS X’s Time Machine.
After a few early hiccups and technical glitches, Apple’s Time Machine has become the back up utility we all want and need.
It’s truly set it and forget it, right? Mostly. There are times when I want to poke Time Machine in the nose. If it had a nose.
The problem isn’t Time Machine’s ease of use. What could be easier? Add another hard drive, turn on Time Machine, point it to the new hard drive, and wait.
Or, go away for awhile as Time Machine grinds away, making a backup of your Mac’s hard drive.
I’ve had cause.... (excerpted).
3 Reader Comments
Mr Squid said:
I have been using Time Machine since I converted my desktop to Leopard. (I would not recommend converting a laptop until the airport problems are fixed.) I have been very impressed with Time Machine. It simply works. My only complaint is that the spacy interface is a bit clumsy, but that is a detail. Part of me can hardly wait until I have a hard drive failure so that I can really put Time Machine to the test. 
robbie ancel said:
I use time machine on one hard drive and Super Duper on another hard drive.
The only problem is that Time Machine must alter the file date stamp somehow and that forces Superduper to re evaluate ALL the files on the hard drive. So that now instead of a 20 min backup it takes an hour. I have tried backing up with Super Duper first, but strangely it still has the same effect. I backup every Friday.
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PRO~DUAL~INTEL~3/GIGAHERTZ said:
First a reply to Mr. Squid, I had to use time machine for an entire back up a few months ago when I was messing around in the Library folder and changed some stuff and also lost all my preferences because I was snooping around in my preferences folder. Time machine worked like a charm for the complete reinstall from OS X Leopard disk and when everything was reinstalled the only problem I had was I had to get out my folder with printed out receipts for software codes of license codes for software that I bought. I had to reinstall my intego even though time machine put it back on, Mac scan I had to do the same thing and 1-password. Basically every thing on your computer that you buy a license for you will have to reinstall but other wise I had no complaints.
As for time machine schedular I am going to wait. At least the publisher of it admits there are still bugs in it. I had a problem with time machine freezing on me for weeks and was blaming Apple for it. After a week of reading through Apples discussion threads I found the problem, it was my Intego background scanner. I turned off the background scanner and boom my time machine came back to life for me. Yes I want that program but I am going to wait for a few more version updates on time machine schedular.