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Backup takes ages...is this right?
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<blockquote data-quote="snoslicer8" data-source="post: 530677" data-attributes="member: 19029"><p>As you might see from my Mac specs on the left, I've got 120 GB internal on my MBP, a 320 GB External drive that I use for Leopard's Time Machine drive (backs up everything once an hour, by default), and a 320 GB media drive.</p><p></p><p>I store my 60 GB music library on my internal drive since I am constantly changing it, and resyncing my iPod...takes much less time to sync an iPod if the files it needs are on the internal drive.</p><p></p><p>I keep my 120+ GB of video files on the external media drive, and the iTunes music library just points to this location for all video (Movies, TV Shows, etc). I also keep a backup of my music library here on this drive.</p><p></p><p>The Time Machine drive keeps Leopard's backups on it, which obviously includes backups of my music library.</p><p></p><p>All in all, my music library is stored internally and backed up to 2 locations externally. My home folder with photos, docs, etc is internal and backed up to both locations. The only thing not redundant is my videos folder, since I just don't have the space to back it up...and videos are far less important to me than my music library.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I use iDisk backup for is Personal Settings and my Home folder minus the music/video aspects. This backs up my photos, web pages, docs, etc to iDisk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snoslicer8, post: 530677, member: 19029"] As you might see from my Mac specs on the left, I've got 120 GB internal on my MBP, a 320 GB External drive that I use for Leopard's Time Machine drive (backs up everything once an hour, by default), and a 320 GB media drive. I store my 60 GB music library on my internal drive since I am constantly changing it, and resyncing my iPod...takes much less time to sync an iPod if the files it needs are on the internal drive. I keep my 120+ GB of video files on the external media drive, and the iTunes music library just points to this location for all video (Movies, TV Shows, etc). I also keep a backup of my music library here on this drive. The Time Machine drive keeps Leopard's backups on it, which obviously includes backups of my music library. All in all, my music library is stored internally and backed up to 2 locations externally. My home folder with photos, docs, etc is internal and backed up to both locations. The only thing not redundant is my videos folder, since I just don't have the space to back it up...and videos are far less important to me than my music library. The only thing I use iDisk backup for is Personal Settings and my Home folder minus the music/video aspects. This backs up my photos, web pages, docs, etc to iDisk. [/QUOTE]
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