Holy backup project Batman! I got my MacBook Air in Summer 2011, and I have faithfully used Time Machine since. Finally, in the last 6 Months my external hard drive got full and some old backups were automatically deleted. So, I bought a new 1TB drive. Yesterday, around 3:15 PM, I began the process of transfering the TM backup from my old drive to my new one. It finished around noon today. I gave everything a break for a while, then pointed Time Machine to my new drive and began the fresh backup. My MBA hasn't been backed up since Sept, so this took a little while. ;) Not nearly as long as the transfer.
The next thing I'm going to tackle is deleting some of the oldest TM backups on my original external drive so I can keep using it for TM. This way I'll have 2, nearly complete backups. I should maybe consider some off site backup, but that feels like a whole other can of worms. Lol, this was a big enough project. I've never left my Mac on over night finishing up a task. Fingers crossed, the Western Digital Elements drive is a good one. My Seagate has never had an issue over these 6 years. Thanks for your guy's input on my Time Machine and backup questions. Traci -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
