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<blockquote data-quote="kurios_oranj" data-source="post: 899654" data-attributes="member: 118748"><p>I have an apple extreme attached to a drobo set up as a NAS. One partition of the drobo has my time machine backups on it.</p><p></p><p>I have my iphoto library on my mac mini, saved in a sparseimage which is permanently mounted, to allow me to access it from different computers. The sparse image is huge, something like 50 GB. I am noticing that when time machine starts a backup, every time the mac mini is backing up the full sparse image, i.e. 50 GB. </p><p>a. this almost never completes, as the library is huge</p><p>b. it is hopelessly inefficient</p><p>c. it will fill up my 1 TB drobo partition in no time at all</p><p></p><p>is there a way to get round this so that only the files added or modified within the sparse image are backed up? </p><p></p><p>Thanks for any help, </p><p></p><p>Kurios</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kurios_oranj, post: 899654, member: 118748"] I have an apple extreme attached to a drobo set up as a NAS. One partition of the drobo has my time machine backups on it. I have my iphoto library on my mac mini, saved in a sparseimage which is permanently mounted, to allow me to access it from different computers. The sparse image is huge, something like 50 GB. I am noticing that when time machine starts a backup, every time the mac mini is backing up the full sparse image, i.e. 50 GB. a. this almost never completes, as the library is huge b. it is hopelessly inefficient c. it will fill up my 1 TB drobo partition in no time at all is there a way to get round this so that only the files added or modified within the sparse image are backed up? Thanks for any help, Kurios [/QUOTE]
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