[OSX-Users] Re: Time Machine tip

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I was using wifi the first time, and Jules asked me not to do that again :)

Wifi/wired actually didn't make much difference. My disk is full past 
the 200Gb mark, although it's easy to exclude some obvious junk it's 
still 150Gb and that estimated it was going to take >12hours!

Right now I'm adding another 20Gb incrementally to my first backup and 
that's just estimating it'll take around an hour which is a time span I 
can commit to :)

On 29/06/2015 15:23, Tim Chown wrote:
> 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 
>> <mailto: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/
>>
>

-- 
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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