http://mcdevzone.com/2007/10/29/time-machine-airdisk/ iPhone & Macintosh Development Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://mcdevzone.com/2007/10/29/time-machine-airdisk/comment-page-1/#comment-11803 Jeff Harrell Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:15:10 +0000 http://mcdevzone.com/2007/10/29/time-machine-airdisk#comment-11803 I'd be ridiculously careful about this. If you've noticed, Time Machine (specifically backupd) won't start a backup if you're not connected to AC power. I'm sure that's a precautionary measure to protect against the computer's going to sleep during a backup. It's reasonable to think that this feature was included, and the AirDisk feature removed, because right now Time Machine isn't exactly great at recovering from catastrophically interrupted backups. I'm told it can handle a paused/resumed backup, like when you put your laptop to sleep in the middle. But I wouldn't trust it to handle a backup that just fails right in the middle. I’d be ridiculously careful about this. If you’ve noticed, Time Machine (specifically backupd) won’t start a backup if you’re not connected to AC power. I’m sure that’s a precautionary measure to protect against the computer’s going to sleep during a backup. It’s reasonable to think that this feature was included, and the AirDisk feature removed, because right now Time Machine isn’t exactly great at recovering from catastrophically interrupted backups. I’m told it can handle a paused/resumed backup, like when you put your laptop to sleep in the middle. But I wouldn’t trust it to handle a backup that just fails right in the middle.

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