Alex, I'm not so sure you could not have your windows and Mac data backed up to the same location. Of course it would require a lot of trickery, but nothing is necessarily impossible. You could possibly pull it off with a well crafted APple script on the Mac side.
On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I know, but since I primarily use Windows for now, I pay for my > Windows carbonite subscription. As I understand it, even though the > Mini is one computer, I would have to pay again to back up my mac os > partition. Until I use the mac more and start leaving my files there, > I will just use time machine to keep my apps and settings up to date. > Ideally, there would be some magical place from which both mac and > windows could read and to which they could write in perfect harmony, > but the file system war seems to preclude any such dream from ever > becoming a reality. Too bad, since I could just back up said magical > land with carbonite and let local backups store the less critical > settings and apps. > > On 2/3/12, agent086b <agent0...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am sure you already know, you can use Carbonite on your Mac. >> Max. >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: time machine? >> From: Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:54:11 -0500 >>> Thanks for the responses. Regarding my last question: >>> 1. You create a novel in Text Edit, saving it as a single document. >>> 2. You back up your mac, which, of course, backs up your novel in the >>> process. Let us say this was done on January 1. >>> 3. You come back to the novel a week later, making extensive >>> modifications. Unfortunately, your mac goes crazy and you restore from >>> your January 1 backup. >>> What happens to your novel? Do you retain the January 8 version, or is >>> that overwritten with the January 1 version? I have Carbonite on >>> Windows, but before I had that I tended to save to my hard drive and >>> make backups every month or so. In the above example, then, I would >>> not have backed up every itteration of the novel, and would probably >>> have done a backup a few weeks later. The restore, then, would happen >>> between my backups, so what would happen to the file in question? I >>> hope that makes sense. >>> >>> On 2/3/12, Scott Howell<scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Alex answers follow below: >>>> >>>> On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>>> 1. Will any external hard drive work? >>>> ALex you may use any external drive you like. However, you should ensure >>>> you >>>> have of course sufficient capacity and in fact you may consider having a >>>> drive that is at least twice the capacity of the drive you are backing >>>> up. >>>> THis is not a requirement, but a consideration. >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2. Do I need to format it in a special way? If so, can I make a >>>>> partition on it to use for backups and leave the rest readable by >>>>> Windows computers? >>>> I do not recall whether it matters, but the TIme Machine utility takes >>>> care >>>> of this if I recall correctly. You could split the drive into multiple >>>> partitions and choose where you want TIme Machine to place the backups. >>>> >>>>> 3. Is time machine fully accessible? >>>> I have not had any problems using TIme Machine. >>>> >>>> >>>>> 4. Are time machine backups readable? That is, if I wanted a file off >>>>> an old backup but did not want to restore the whole thing, could I >>>>> just browse to that file and copy it like normal? >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>>> 5. Is anything not backed up? >>>> The only files that come to mind which are not backed up are those that >>>> have >>>> no impact on operation of your Mac. In other words these are files you do >>>> not have direct access to and are only used by the current instance of >>>> the >>>> OS. So if you restored the entire machine or cloned the drive you would >>>> not >>>> want these files. >>>> >>>>> 6. If I had to restore, and I had newer files than in the backup, what >>>>> happens? In other words, is there a way to restore only system folders >>>>> so that files modified since the backup are not overwritten with older >>>>> versions? >>>> Interesting question since I'm not sure how this condition would occur >>>> really. I'm trying to invision a scenario that might apply in this case. >>>> >>>> hth, >>>> >>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>> -- >>>>> Have a great day, >>>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website) >>>>> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 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 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. >> >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > -- > 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. 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