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?
TM does FileVault backups like it does as otherwise your TM disk would
be a nice, unencrypted, history of all your data.
If you recreate your FileVault on 10.5 it should be a tiny bit faster
as it will use a sparsebundle image rather than a vanilla sparse image.
Josh
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