Tag Archives: Time Machine

WTF, Time Machine?

For a while I was feeling pretty good about making the switch from whenever-I-get-around-to-doing-it backups with SuperDuper to hourly-in-the-background backups with Time Machine. But today I noticed that, even after more than a week, no history shows up when I attempt to “time travel”. Then I find TS1760: “In the Mac OS X 10.5 Time …

December 16, 2008 – 2:44 am | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Time Machine automatically finds your sparse image

Yesterday I followed Erik J. Barzeski’s instructions to configure Time Machine to backup to a sparse bundle disk image on my Drobo. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to tell Time Machine to use the disk image and not the whole disk; eventually I discovered that if you just select …

December 8, 2008 – 12:12 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Tagged , , | Comments Off