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Time Machine best backup option on Leopard?

Posted on 22/3/2008, 3:39 am, by Colin Charles, under General.

Dear Lazyweb,

Is the best way to backup Mac OS X Leopard, Time Machine? Will it give me full, reliable restores, in case all goes to hell?

On Linux, I use rdiff-backup, which is a phenomenal tool, that is quick and easy to use from the command line. Its restores are proven (even across Linux distributions). Do I need to bother with it on OS X?

Is Time Machine space efficient? My Macbook comes with a 250GB hard disk, and the largest 2.5″ disk I can buy is a 320GB disk, and that’s currently what I use for Time Machine backups (no, I will not carry a 3.5″ disk for backups – I travel a lot).

Thanks

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  • http://www.cafuego.net/ Cafuego

    Time machine does take a bit more space on your backup disk, as it will backup your WHOLE system, not just the dirs you’d point rdiff-backup at, but I think the conveniece of restoring to a working system would outweigh the space issue.

  • http://www.bytebot.net/ byte

    Thanks Peter! I’ll just use Time Machine and hopefully, never have to worry about running out of space on the 320gb disk…

  • http://www.cafuego.net Cafuego

    Time machine will tell you when the disk is full and you can then discard entire snapshots to make space available again, more or less similar to the –remove-older-than option to rdiff-backup.

  • http://www.hoosgot.com/index.php/2008/03/22/time-machine-best-backup-option-on-leopa/ Time Machine best backup option on Leopa …
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