Posted February 17th, 2008 @ 04:51pm by Erik J. Barzeski
A few days ago, my Time Machine drive filled up.
I back up a 500 GB drive nightly to another 500 GB drive. My main drive (and the exact, full, bootable backup) have 130 GB free.
Since I began backing up my Time Machine drive shortly after Leopard's release back in October, I'm fairly impressed that it took so long to "fill up."
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Posted 17 Feb 2008 at 4:54pm #
If you still use Entourage, it's doubly impressive since its database is a big binary lump that has to be completely copied with every backup.
Posted 17 Feb 2008 at 5:58pm #
You don't use FileVault then, right ?
It's utterly dumb the way Time Machine deals with FileVault.
Posted 17 Feb 2008 at 6:04pm #
If they move this to a ZFS-snapshot, the coherency unit becomes a fs block. Anyone with some real world data and some free time want to diff some time machine backups and see how much better this will be?
Posted 17 Feb 2008 at 10:01pm #
[quote comment="46042"]You don't use FileVault then, right?[/quote]
On a Mac Pro, no. No File Vault here.