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Re: BRU, tape drives and XServe

On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Edward R. Marczak wrote:

Note that Time Machine won't backup logged in File Vaulted users. Since I recommend FV for all mobile users, this unfortunately blows this out of the water as a real option.

I've been wondering why Apple imposed that restriction, as I cannot identify a technological limitation that would preclude active backups (or TM browsing) by a logged-in FV user. I haven't played with TM (or 10.5) in my office much, but on my personal computer I have noticed that I can easily mount the diskimage on my FV drive and browse its contents. So if I can access the image, why can't Time Machine?

I have been wondering if this is an early-adopter limitation and something that Apple is working on a fix for.

In any event, FileVault doesn't preclude using Time Machine as a backup strategy. It just means that laptop users would need to log out and wait for backup before disconnecting from the LAN.

It is legitimate, however, to note that it would be unrealistic to expect users to follow that behavior reliably. It also is not generally the function of I.T. to force users to do something cumbersome in order to work around one technology's limitation when other technologies don't share that limitation.
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 >Re: BRU, tape drives and XServe (From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: BRU, tape drives and XServe (From: "Edward R. Marczak" <email@hidden>)



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