{"id":754,"date":"2008-03-22T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/22\/time-machine-best-backup-option-on-leopard"},"modified":"2008-03-22T03:39:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:39:40","slug":"time-machine-best-backup-option-on-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/22\/time-machine-best-backup-option-on-leopard","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine best backup option on Leopard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lazyweb,<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>On Linux, I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nongnu.org\/rdiff-backup\/\">rdiff-backup<\/a>, 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?<\/p>\n<p>Is Time Machine space efficient? My Macbook comes with a 250GB hard disk, and the largest 2.5&#8243; disk I can buy is a 320GB disk, and that&#8217;s currently what I use for Time Machine backups (no, I will not carry a 3.5&#8243; disk for backups &#8211; I travel a lot).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lazyweb\" rel=\"tag\">lazyweb<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/backups\" rel=\"tag\">backups<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/time%20machine\" rel=\"tag\">time machine<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/macosx\" rel=\"tag\">macosx<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/leopard\" rel=\"tag\">leopard<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rdiff-backup\" rel=\"tag\">rdiff-backup<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Time%20Machine%20best%20backup%20option%20on%20Leopard%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F22%2Ftime-machine-best-backup-option-on-leopard&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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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. 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I couldn't kill the mount_hfs process (kill -9), but I could kill syslogd\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Tech&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":650,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/22\/backup-disks-for-photos","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":4},"title":"Backup disks for photos","date":"22\/10\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"With disk being as cheap as it currently is, there's no reason to not buy some large disks, and create some redundant backup of images (DVDs are getting stale). 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