Comments on: Useless Time Capsule Feature http://blog.gruby.com/2010/02/07/useless-time-capsule-feature/ Another semi-useless spot on the web... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:45:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danhttp://blog.gruby.com/2010/02/07/useless-time-capsule-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-16283 Dan Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:58:05 +0000 http://blog.gruby.com/?p=2453#comment-16283 Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try SuperDuper! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try SuperDuper!

]]> By: Scott Grubyhttp://blog.gruby.com/2010/02/07/useless-time-capsule-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-16275 Scott Gruby Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:34:26 +0000 http://blog.gruby.com/?p=2453#comment-16275 I actually stopped using rsync pretty much for what you mentioned about a backup in progress. In addition, it was far too slow. What I do now is mount the sparse image and use SuperDuper! to back it up to an external drive connected to my media center. This prevents Time Machine from being able to backup, is more reliable, and faster. However, I only backup the Time Machine backup of my wife's machine as the SuperDuper! backups of Time Machine for my own machine were taking far too long. Since do daily backups with SuperDuper! on my primary machine, I'm not concerned. I use Time Machine on my machine in case I mess up and I can rollback, not as a primary backup.One thing still missing in my routine is backing up to another media. When I get my next machine, I hope it will either come with a dual layer DVD burner or have an external one; 8 GB will make it easier to backup to DVDs periodically. I actually stopped using rsync pretty much for what you mentioned about a backup in progress. In addition, it was far too slow. What I do now is mount the sparse image and use SuperDuper! to back it up to an external drive connected to my media center. This prevents Time Machine from being able to backup, is more reliable, and faster. However, I only backup the Time Machine backup of my wife's machine as the SuperDuper! backups of Time Machine for my own machine were taking far too long. Since do daily backups with SuperDuper! on my primary machine, I'm not concerned. I use Time Machine on my machine in case I mess up and I can rollback, not as a primary backup.

One thing still missing in my routine is backing up to another media. When I get my next machine, I hope it will either come with a dual layer DVD burner or have an external one; 8 GB will make it easier to backup to DVDs periodically.

]]> By: Danhttp://blog.gruby.com/2010/02/07/useless-time-capsule-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-16272 Dan Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:29:54 +0000 http://blog.gruby.com/?p=2453#comment-16272 Hey would you be willing to share the rsync command you used for this? I want to do the same thing (automate an off-site backup of our Time Capsule) but am nervous that with the wrong settings rsync might not handle the symlinks correctly, etc. Have you confirmed the backup works?Totally agree the the built-in "archive" command is pretty useless. It's also annoying that there's no option to erase the drive you're archiving onto, so once that fills up you have to plug it into a computer, erase it, then plug it into TC, then 24 hours of TC downtime. Honestly just dragging all the files across the network to make the backup is probably easier (though not sure what happens if a TM backup happens while that's in progress, or for that matter while an rsync is in progress). Hey would you be willing to share the rsync command you used for this? I want to do the same thing (automate an off-site backup of our Time Capsule) but am nervous that with the wrong settings rsync might not handle the symlinks correctly, etc. Have you confirmed the backup works?

Totally agree the the built-in "archive" command is pretty useless. It's also annoying that there's no option to erase the drive you're archiving onto, so once that fills up you have to plug it into a computer, erase it, then plug it into TC, then 24 hours of TC downtime. Honestly just dragging all the files across the network to make the backup is probably easier (though not sure what happens if a TM backup happens while that's in progress, or for that matter while an rsync is in progress).

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