04-15-2010, 06:42 PM
Wow, I just started this process, too. I've got about 250 movies and 120 TV shows. They're stored on a large external FW drive, dedicated to housing iTunes media. And keeping them securely backed up to a separate destination just became a problem: My redundant backup drive got full, no room left. Only other large backup space I have available is a 1.5 TB Seagate Drive that's an Air Disk, on my Airport Extreme Base Station. It's got 1.3 TB available. I use it for TM backups. But because it's not directly attached, it's a network drive, my usual automated backup methods run into permission errors.
So my most recent experiment is this: I went into Time Machine prefs, and instead of excluding this FW drive from backups, I included it. I'm going to try letting Time Machine back it up. All baziillion GBs of it. (okay, about 600 GBs) Insane? You bet!
I'm letting it grind away, it'll probably take 2 or 3 days to complete the initial transfer.
I expected it would cripple my network, all that bandwidth being taken up, but it seems to be okay, I don't notice any slowdowns for other local transfers.
So I'll just let it keep going, and see if this solution offers any benefits or disadvantages.
I would ideally like it to be an invisible, automated thing, since I update my movie library regularly, I'd prefer to just know that new additions are backed up, and changes are reflected as I edit my library.
I'd be curious what other users are doing, too, first-hand reports from other members.
So my most recent experiment is this: I went into Time Machine prefs, and instead of excluding this FW drive from backups, I included it. I'm going to try letting Time Machine back it up. All baziillion GBs of it. (okay, about 600 GBs) Insane? You bet!
I'm letting it grind away, it'll probably take 2 or 3 days to complete the initial transfer.
I expected it would cripple my network, all that bandwidth being taken up, but it seems to be okay, I don't notice any slowdowns for other local transfers.
So I'll just let it keep going, and see if this solution offers any benefits or disadvantages.
I would ideally like it to be an invisible, automated thing, since I update my movie library regularly, I'd prefer to just know that new additions are backed up, and changes are reflected as I edit my library.
I'd be curious what other users are doing, too, first-hand reports from other members.