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saspro
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I know this is fairly Apple hardware specific but I'm posting it here. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3351
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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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My mates Time Capsule falls within the allotted serial numbers, but he hasn't had any trouble with at all.
Mark
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| Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:14 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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The PSU transformer units inside them have a something like 1 in 3 failure rate inside warranty, so they've obviously decided to recall them all rather than deal with irate users who have had them go pop at an inopportune moment. Jon
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| Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:47 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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*counting the moments until koli arrives and gets all aerated.*
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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ChurchCat
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Just wondering how many of us use Time Capsules. *raises paw* I use one to make sure my laptop is backed up every hour. The thing with portable computers is that people often forget to back them up regularly.  _________________A Mac user
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| Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:48 pm |
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jonbwfc
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I do have one but I actually stopped using it as a backup device a while ago as backing up over the network was comparatively slow. These days I use it as a convenient NAS device and do my Time Machine backups to a second drive on the machine instead. As far as I'm concerned Time Machine is more for 'oh crap I need that file and I just changed it/emptied the waste bin' than for disaster recovery. I do an image backup to a USB drive for that.
Jon
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Nick
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I bought mine reconditioned (with a shiny PSU), and I've ripped the hard-drive out anyway so I wouldn't be able to send it back to Apple in any case. Yeah definitely - I couldn't imagine waiting for it to transfer the almost 150GB I have backed up over wi-fi!  Not quite sure what you mean about the image backup to USB though - do you mean you have a USB drive plugged into your Time Machine and use the backup archive feature?? That's something I intend to setup sooner or later when I've got a caddy available. _________________
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forquare1
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Time Capsule isn't really needed in my situation.
My MacBook gets sync'd to my Mac Pro thrice an hour and the Mac Pro has an internal Time Machine backup. When I can be bothered (bad, I know) I do a Carbon Copy Cloner image thingy to my server.
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jonbwfc
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No, I use SuperDuper to clone my main disk to a USB hard drive as a scheduled job every week or so. You can't actually boot from it but I could certainly rebuild my PC and clone it back if I had a major fail. It's a lot easier to put away in a cupboard somewhere else to give me a bit of data security of my house gets burgled say... Jon
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ChurchCat
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How do you do that?  _________________A Mac user
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JJW009
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Isn't there a version of rsync on Macs? _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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forquare1
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There is, but I've got something a little easier to manage than that: ChronoSync, rather expensive to start with, but I'd highly recommend it. It offers really good control over what does and doesn't sync.
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| Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:21 pm |
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big_D
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It is faster than USB on the iMac!  I recovered my iMac last week, it took a few hours to restore the machine. I then copied all the data from my iMac to my Sony laptop via Gigabit (20 minutes) and used Acronis "Non-Stop-Backup" on the Sony (Acronis' equivalent of Time Machine), it finished in under 15 mintues on an e-SATA drive...
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