Tag: Time Machine

Time Machine, Apple’s awesome automatic backup software is very aggressive about backing up your data because, well, that is it’s job. I’m beta testing a game with a large number of files that change constantly. The folder for the game is around 16GB of data, so I don’t want any of this backed up. I… Continue reading Using meta folders for time machine exclusion

Last week Apple gave me a Time Capsule because of all of the problems I had with my Mac. That was awesome of them! My network at home consisted of an Airport Extreme as my router and 802.11n wireless access point, with a Linksys acting in bridge mode and a 802.11g wireless access point. I… Continue reading Time Capsule Bonjour issue

I picked up a new MacBook Pro today! The thing is super fast and only has an issue with the new trackpad (not wholly unexpected, more later) I have a USB drive attached to a airport extreme as a time machine volume. This has been working fine for months. I tried to restore from the… Continue reading Remote Time Machine restore issues