On 12/10/2007 19:40 PM, "Ware Adams" <email@hidden> 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.
Okay, but at that point, you've killed the most useful part of Time Machine,
and you may as well just pony up the cash for a more conventional backup
utility.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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