On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Edward R. Marczak wrote:
Have you considered eventually using Time Machine to handle your
laptop backups? It's a somewhat different mentality than Retro, but
it will get all your laptop data into a location where you can get
it onto tape...
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.
We've only been experimenting with this with two client machines, but
while what you say is true we haven't found it completely useless.
Time Machine won't back up logged in FV users, but it will back those
users up once they log out. It first compresses the FV sparsebundle
then backs up. You lose the Time Machine GUI for that user's files
and you only get one real backup per logout as opposed to hourly, but
to me it has actually made FV usable. You've got regular backups for
the more fragile setup of FV.
Additionally, you can browse the sparsebundle backups one by one on
your backup drive and pick the one you need. The instructions say you
can only do a full restore, but you can in fact mount any of the
backed up sparsebundles and pick any individual files.
Of course the user has to log out to get any backups at all, but
that's not a bad idea either (though it could well be tough to enforce).
We've done this on 2 10.5.1 PBs, one backing up to a 10.5.1 (client)
fileshare and the other to a USB disk.
--Ware
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