<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Were you using WiFi? If so, maybe use Ethernet / a wired docking point for the Big One? <br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jun 2015, at 15:20, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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)<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Christopher Gutteridge -- <a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg" class="">http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg</a><br class=""><br class="">University of Southampton Open Data Service: <a href="http://data.southampton.ac.uk/" class="">http://data.southampton.ac.uk/</a><br class="">You should read the ECS Web Team blog: <a href="http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/" class="">http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>