Time Machine

[Fritz]

since Eudora crashed on me yesterday, I decided to try TM as a background constant; seems to be the way it works. I use iBackup for monthly bu and I'm never too far from home with that, until the Eu crash.
I've excluded all except folders that I use daily.
I assume that's the way it works? Are the files accessible any other way other than thru TM?
Since I started TM a few minutes ago, Sys Prefs are still "active". Should that be?

[ADent]

The files are stored on the drive as plain files.

But TM is much cooler, plus you can use TM while in Mail, iPhoto, etc to get specific items.

I ran TM overnight the first time and now it runs every hour. I don't notice it run, beside the icon in the menu bar, but some people have noticeable slow downs.

[TiUser]

I use TM with my MBA backup to a 500G Time Capsule via WIFI. I do notice some, at times significant, slowdowns especially backing up large files. ADent, what machine are you on that you don't notice any slowdown?

[Fritz]

is your Sys ™ prefs always launched?
I could, I assume, run this to an ext FW drive?

[Don Kiyoti]

There's been a utility posted here a couple of times that will reduce the backups to once daily instead of hourly, although for some reason (at least for me) it backs up twice a day now. I can live with that.

http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/

On a related note, anyone know a way of telling TM not to try backing up every CD, DVD or other disk I mount?

TM saved my butt a few days ago when I screwed up my Lightroom database!