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Apple Computing Products:
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Time Machine Size Required?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 865201" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Yes, Time Machine and File Vault do not really play nice together.</p><p></p><p>I have not used File Vault, but there is plenty of info out there about the 2 of them searching google. Did not find one specifically mentioning partition size though. If your FileVaulted home folder was created in 10.4 and you did an upgrade to 10.5, it will not work with Time Machine, though there is a workaround.</p><p></p><p>If you're really that concerned with people accessing your data, most of the recommendations are not to use TM to back up FileVaulted folders as if that hard drive is stolen, the entire contents are easily accessible by a clean install to another machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 865201, member: 24160"] Yes, Time Machine and File Vault do not really play nice together. I have not used File Vault, but there is plenty of info out there about the 2 of them searching google. Did not find one specifically mentioning partition size though. If your FileVaulted home folder was created in 10.4 and you did an upgrade to 10.5, it will not work with Time Machine, though there is a workaround. If you're really that concerned with people accessing your data, most of the recommendations are not to use TM to back up FileVaulted folders as if that hard drive is stolen, the entire contents are easily accessible by a clean install to another machine. [/QUOTE]
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