Sarah, No, I have done this and there were no issues. (including doing a restore.) My wife's computer generally does not have time machine on it, but before doing a maintenace I was able to save everything and then restore it. Also, when my daughter went to college I was able to migrate just her user account from the time machine backup onto her college computer.
Chris, I believe that a disk sparse image is actually a package with several files hidden in one directory. I had read an article that using sparse disk images is a good way to keep some materials on your computer more secure. You can set an encription for the sparse disk image. But since it is actually several files under the hood, TimeMachine can just backup the sectors that changed rather then the entire image. Best regards, jon On 28/07/2010, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > What if you hook your time capsul to someone else's computer and run time > machine on there's? will you loose your back up? > On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> A time machine backup will live in the folder Backups.backupdb when >> backups are run locally. When run over a network Time Machine creates a >> disk image called ComputerName.sparseimage which seems to be one giant >> file. >> >> CB >> >> Jonathan Cohn wrote: >>> I am fairly certain that Time Machine places all the backup >>> information into a very specific directory on your back-up drive. If >>> this is the case, and if this directory does not exist on your Primary >>> disk then you should be OK. >>> >>> I know that Carbon Copy can co-exist if it is run first. Perhaps you >>> want to get a coppy of the take Control book on backups. Take control >>> books are 50% off this week. >>> >>> (Read the instructions in Tidbits.com for how to get the discount). >>> >>> Jon >>> [And no, I get no kickbacks from the Tidbits / Take Control group, I >>> have just found them always to be useful and current] >>> >>> >>> On 21/07/2010, Chris Blouch >>> <cblo...@aol.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I didn't see any replies to this yet. I haven't used carbon copy cloner. >>>> Does it make it's backup into a single file? If so you could probably >>>> store that on the 1TB drive. That said, Time Machine's backup folder >>>> simply stores incremental backups until it fills up the volume and then >>>> starts deleting the oldest backups. So sooner or later that volume will >>>> fill up. I just put a 2TB drive in my other machine for TM backups and >>>> partitioned it into two 500GB volumes and a 1TB volume. The two 500s I >>>> use for two time machine backups, my laptop over the network and the >>>> local machine. Then the 1TB volume is just for general use. That seems >>>> to work well. I haven't done enough re-partitioning to know if you can >>>> resize or not without losing data. Even if you did, you could just run >>>> another time machine backup after you're done. Chances of failure of >>>> your machine at the same time that you're reconfiguring backups is >>>> pretty small. Because everything should just be files on the backup >>>> volume you shouldn't have anything stepping on anything. >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> Mary Otten wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I have a 1 tb hard drive which is being used by time machine. But I >>>>> would >>>>> also really like to have a bootable back up, and I know TM does not do >>>>> this. I have carbon copy cloneer, which will make bootable back ups. >>>>> Question is, and perhaps its a stupid one, are the applications smart >>>>> enough not to step on each others data? If the drive were partitioned, >>>>> that would be an obvious way to solve the problem. But it isn't, and >>>>> I've >>>>> got several months worth of time machine backups on it already, so >>>>> should >>>>> think partitioning at this time would not be possible without data >>>>> loss. >>>>> is that correct? >>>>> Mary >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> . >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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