[MasterRanger]

Looks like I'll just wait for SuperDuper to get 100% Leopard compatible and back up to my WinXP SMB share that's in the closet. Frankly all this makes me wonder how "backed up" the iMac is. A bad backup that you don't know about is worse than no backup at all! Thanks Apple! What'd you do, hire Vista programmers? Outsource to India?
All I've heard for months is "OMG Time Machine!Time MachineTime MachineTime MachineTime Machine" and it doesn't even work.

[folklore]

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Looks like I'll just wait for SuperDuper to get 100% Leopard compatible and back up to my WinXP SMB share that's in the closet. Frankly all this makes me wonder how "backed up" the iMac is. A bad backup that you don't know about is worse than no backup at all! Thanks Apple! What'd you do, hire Vista programmers? Outsource to India?
All I've heard for months is "OMG Time Machine!Time MachineTime MachineTime MachineTime Machine" and it doesn't even work.

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My best guess as to your problem: You're not connected to your desktop Mac as a user with admin rights. By default, Leopard connects to other Macs as "guest," allowing you access only to the public folders of the machine. To remedy this, click the computer your TM backup is hosted on in Finder's sidebar, then click "Connect as" in the upper right. Enter a username that has administrator rights, and try connecting to the disk that hosts your TM backup. If you can mount that disk, you should be good to put a TM backup there.
If that's not it, I have no idea what the problem you're experiencing is. But it certainly sounds more like a sharing problem than a TM problem.
FWIW, I've had no difficulty getting my MBP to backup to an external drive attached to my iMac.
TM even mounts the drive automatically when a backup is performed.
But it works slightly differently than when the drive is directly attached to the Mac. When using TM over the network, it creates an image file in the root of the TM drive and puts its backup in there instead of simply putting it in the folder with the other TM backup (I'm backing up both Macs to the same disk). If I attach the external directly to the MBP, it places the backup in the backups folder. One cannot switch back and forth between directly connecting and connecting over the network - TM doesn't view the backups as the same thing - so even the first (huge) backup has to be done over the network.
It's a tad odd, but it works and works automatically. Backups were performed when they were supposed to be and I was able to restore a test file.
I just installed Leopard on the MBP last night, so we'll see what happens while I'm at work and when I get home.

[griffman]

Of course, the 1.95 million people who aren't having issues with Time Machine aren't posting to various sites proclaiming how trouble free it is, are they?
-rob.

[yyhkitty]

Does anyone know if my Time Machine would be compromised if I deleted some of my backups?
I'm running out of space on my external hard drive and would like to clear up space for more recent backups.
I think that as long as I don't delete the initial backup, it should be alright. Is this true?
Thanks

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
Time Machine is suppose to automatically delete ( starting with the oldest ) backups to free space for newer ones. It warns you ( at least ) the first time you run out of space that it will do just that. That's also why it says what date the oldest backup is.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
I didn't see anyone post about it but what about integrity ( reliability )? I've noticed that if you stop or otherwise interrupt a backup, it seems to resume ( remaining size ) when you try another backup. I'm just wondering if Time Machine is dang sure that a file didn't get corrupted and isn't updated until you restore from backup, if that file is fine. That made sense, right?

[ttravis34]

What exactly does Time Machine save. If I am to update to Snow Leopard will my programs and apps be save on my time capsule? Also does it save all the items in folders in the folders, for instance all my music is saved in itunes music folder, when I set up Time Machine with the new OS will the music be in that folder still?

[hvail]

Is Apple ever going to "enable" Time Machine to work with SMB Volumes? It would sure make life easier for a lot of people if that capability were added.

[janesvillite]

I have an issue with Time Machine. Hopefully my complaint will help get my problem solved.
I plugged in my External Hard Drive to see what time machine was. It told me that I needed to reformat. No problem. I took all my files off my HD and put them on the desktop. I then reformatted the drive.
After the reformat was complete, I backed up my computer with Time Machine. I then put all my files back onto my hard drive. Time Machine only used 2% of my space, so even with the files I have put my the HD, there is still plenty of room for backups.
Here's the thing. I "safely" removed the hardware from my computer, then unplugged the HD. I later plugged it back in and WHALA.....half of my pictures were GONE. I hadn't even done an additional backup yet other than the initial one. All I did was want to get a file, and then accidentally opened my pictures folder. All the picture folders from H to Z were gone.
So I thought "oh, no problem, I can just go into Time Machine and get them." I have looked and looked and there is no way, to my knowledge, that I can retrieve files that were saved onto my desktop!! I try selecting the Desktop icon in the finder window on the date that I backed everything up, and I can't get access to the desktop!! So much for making and "exact copy of everything on the computer." If I'm wrong (and I hope to God that I am horribly wrong), please let me know so I'm not spreading this news to others who are thinking of buying a Macbook. So far, I'm very disappointed.