[OSX-Users] Back up of Time Machine

[Hugh Glaser]

What do you do for Time Machine backup?

I am getting irritated about this.
I used to have TM on my Windows server on a hardware RAID.
So no off-site backup, but protection against device failure, and worked fine.
But I wanted to pension off the old Dell, and I have a MacMini that is running in any case (my TV).
So I bought a couple of boxes from Dabs that I could put the Sata disk in (£8.32 each, which is good for letting me use 750GB 3.5" disks on the Mac - and the box for a 2.5" is 3.80!)
The software RAID was not so good (I think I kicked out the power cord while writing), so I decided it was too fragile, and bought a 3TB disk to do the whole job.

But that still doesn't give me my TM backup - I need to be able to copy the TM from the 3TB to one of the 750's.
But the Finder won't let me - it reports that the disk is not suitable for copying because of case issues.
Lying piece of shit - I formatted the disk as case-sensitive just so that I could do the copy, because I had seen the message before, and in any case it is com in got a non-case-sensitvie disk. Probably about hardware links to directories, but never mind.
Is it really the case that the only way to do this is with Carbon Copy Cloner, rsync, or whatever?

And all this is because Apple won't let me easily do TM to more than one TM.

We waited years for a decent backup system for the Mac, but it is still hard to protect against device failure of the TM backup.
Oh well, at least when it is finished I will be able to have an off-site backup at last.
I suppose it will finish - it has just generated an extra 7GB of swap space preparing to clone.