The Bearer Of Bad News

[Mark Wieder]

Colin-

Saturday, October 25, 2014, 6:11:57 AM, you wrote:

> I have in the past disliked Time Machine. In those days I had a
> regular hard drive, and it seemed sometimes that it would take the
> full hour to backup, meaning that it was backing up continuously,
> and noticeably affecting the responsiveness of the system while it
> was doing that. Now I use SSD (though with a regular HD as the
> backup drive), and I’m barely aware of the backups happening.

Yeah, that's exactly my beef with TM - the backup drive is chugging
along continuously, and the backups never end no matter how many
exceptions I put into the folder list. But it's the backup drive
that's running continuously, not the mac's disk. I think it's the
process of removing old artifacts and replacing them with new ones
that's taking all the time. I'm thinking of switching over to Dolly
Drive (for local storage only, not cloud), so I'd welcome any comments
yea or nay that anyone has on that.

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-Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com

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