[OSX-Users] Re: Time Machine tip

[Tim Chown]

Were you using WiFi?  If so, maybe use Ethernet / a wired docking point for the Big One?  

Tim

> On 29 Jun 2015, at 15:20, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to get up and running using time machine to back up my mac, but the time to do the initial 200Gig means that I would have to leave my laptop in one place for a very long time which is very inconvenient.
> 
> What seems to be working better is to exclude all the big directories, and do an initial backup, then add in a few more to the backup each time. Un-excluding higher directories on the later iterations, (eg /Users/cjg ) but still excluding (/Users/cjg/music)
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
> 
> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
> 

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