Re: Leopard impressions

In article <13i6nkadfkqn284@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"ZnU" <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'll probably just mount the backup disk and have it back up every
couple of days. This is consistent with my previous backup schedule, but
with Time Machine, of course, I get a much nicer UI for accessing my
backups and I won't have to manually initiate them; they'll start
automatically when I turn on the backup drive.

On the other hand, that's a lot less automatic. Too bad you can't
adjust the schedule.

It's completely automatic. I don't usually keep my backup drive turned
on because:

1) There are failure modes that can impact all mounted volumes.
2) My laptop is often not in the same physical location.
3) The external drive is a bit loud.

So, I keep that drive unmounted and turned off when I don't want to
perform a backup anyway. With Time Machine, as soon as I turn it on,
Time Machine starts backing up. With my previous backup scheme I had to
manually initiate a backup after turning on the external drive.

Wasn't that possible in the early betas? Is that Yet Annother Canned
Feature?

I don't recall if the schedule could previously be adjusted. If Apple
dropped that capability, it's clearly not because they couldn't manage
to implement it in time (it's completely trivial), but because they
decided the additional flexibility didn't justify the additional
complexity.

I know Windows users don't generally understand that as a valid
trade-off, and generally believe that more options are always better,
but there's another school of software design that disagrees.

I suppose. I'm not really sure I'd want to try to store old versions of
all my files on a laptop's internal drive anyway. Laptop drives aren't
all that big.

Well, you'd want to just store deltas so you could reconstruct
the old versions. It needn't take *that* much space. Even if you
could do this only at a per-file level, it would have some value.

Sure. I wouldn't be too surprised if this showed up in Time Machine 2.

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