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It's Apple's attempt to convince people of the wisdom of enabling Time Machine.
by jcdreads 17y ago
It's Apple's attempt to convince people of the wisdom of enabling Time Machine.
- robin_reala 17y agoFlippant comment, but there’s some serious truth in this. Data you haven’t backed up is data you don’t want. Time Machine makes backing up trivial to the extent that it’s a zero button solution. I plug in my external hard drive, it recognises it as a Time Machine backup and automatically syncs any changes since the previous backup.
- idlewords 17y agoTime Machine makes backing up trivial to the extent that you have a sufficiently large HFS volume sitting around, and don't need to back up MySQL databases. And if you're unlucky, it can also automate the process of losing all your data: http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/ http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopa... http://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-machine-time-bomb.html http://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-machine-time-bomb.ht...
- glhaynes 17y agoWhat's the MySQL reference to? I haven't heard of a MySQL-specific issue with Time Machine.
- stilist 17y agoFor me, at least, every time I reinstalled Leopard and restored with Time Machine MySQL's data would be gone.
- inklesspen 17y agoWas your MySQL installation configured to store data in any of the excluded directories? http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/31/time-machine-exclusions/ http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/31/time-machine-exclusions/
- idlewords 17y agoIf I understand correctly, Time Machine takes a binary snapshot (similar to rsync). With MySQL (and InnoDB specifically) the stuff on disk is not guaranteed to be in a consistent state while the server is running. The safest way to back up mysql is mysqldump.
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