Jonathan, Crash Plan will let you use their app to freely backup to a friend's machine. HOwever, the app is not very accessible when I tried it a while back.
On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > A few points. > > 1. There are a couple of full disk backup utilities (Carbon Copy Cloner and > SuperDuper ) come to mind immediately. > 2. I believe at least one VM version out there creates its disk images in a > bundle that would allow TimeMachine to not need to copy everything for one > small change. > 3. THere is at least one off-site storage solution that allows one to use a > friends machine for the backups. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan C. Cohn > jonc...@cox.net > > > > On Feb 4, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> In that case Chris it would make sense to share a folder as you said. I >> never save documents or anything in a VM for that reason. Of course if your >> wise you limit the VM i.e. windows to only see one folder which is a >> security measure. >> >> On Feb 3, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >>> While I haven't done it I know that there are settings on VMWare to share >>> the documents folder between your Mac and Virtual windows instance. That >>> would be a nice way to get your windows documents backed up, although it >>> wouldn't help with the rest of your Windows setup. Normally you don't want >>> to have the virtual machine image backed up by time machine because it is a >>> giant monolithic file. So one little change made under Windows and the >>> entire multi-gigabyte disk image is flagged for backing up again. Possible >>> if you are on a local fast big time machine drive, but still kind of a >>> waste. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 2/3/12 8:51 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >>>> 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. >>> 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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