So Who's Using Time Machine

[divigation]

Just curious, now that we are beyond the shiny new stage of Leopard, who uses TM. I don't. I used it till SuperDuper was Leopard happy but have discontinued its use since getting my uber cloner back.

Granted, my file system is not normal at all, the majority of my files are video files and are stored on an external raid which has its own backup. Email is covered by gMail, and Google keeps all my docs as well. My iPhone has my contacts and my calendars are up on a server My iTunes library is on the external with my footage. So there isn't too much of note on my machine beyond applications and settings, which have no use for TM backups when they are redundantly cloned by SD. I have two clones of my internal, a weekly stable clone and a nightly clone.

So I was just curious if I was all alone in my lack of TM usage or if others had stopped using it once the new OS smell faded as well. I had planned on keeping a TM drive and an SD clone, but I prefer the two clones instead.

[houltmac]

I have been using Time Machine since the day I got Leopard. I also use Time Machine to backup my server at work as well as my work iMac to that server. (I also have a mobile home account and Retrospect the server to the RAID which is Time Machine'd to the external backup drives, so I think we are fairly well covered!)

I have stopped using it at home temporarily and am living dangerously while I am on the "loaner" MBP until my shiny new one arrives. Once it does I will have a 320GB drive back and all my day to day will be local and TM'd to my external 320GB Passport (which is currently my only copy of my data). I love Time Machine and think it works well. I would highly recommend using SuperDuper! also and I still use it now and then but Time Machine is so quick, easy and doesn't thrash my drives.

[baseballboy828]

I still use Time Machine. I am planning on adding a second hard drive and using Super Duper to back to back up to it. I should set this us sooner rather than later, but Time Machine is so simple and slick that I don't have much incentive to.

[Yuiichi]

I use TM as well. I think if I were to have anything important on this Mac, I'd probably be using SuperDuper! But, for right now, TM is pretty perfect for just having a sort of safety blanket 'till I get my iMac (this summer, hopefully!) and have actual data to back up.

[philbowell]

I use TM. Found it's come in handy as well. I do plan to get a 2nd external and SuperDuper to it once a month and then keep it away from the iMac but funds don't allow atm.

[GadgetComa]

I use Time Machine and have relied on it for reliable restores many times. I recently installed the Leopard-compatible update for Super Duper. I use it for the Sandbox feature to always have a bootable system with access to my current apps and data. It's effortless!

[studioprisoner]

i'm not using it at the moment... really haven't had a need for it. i did use it in the beginning... i might go back to it.

[zeropur]

Well, my shiny new hard drive arrived last night, so I could finally hook up my firewire and switch my TM to on for the first time.

All I can say is are you SURE everything is in there?

I mean, talk about easy.

Sure, it took a LONG time backing up 130Gigs of info... but then after that it sits there doing hourly back ups and I don't even notice the damn thing.

Apple.... you didi it again... very nicely done!

[beley]

I love Time Machine... I've got every mac in our office using it now. We bought nice, big external hard drives for them all (3 iMacs, 1 MBP & 1 Air) and I'm also using it at home. I haven't had to actually restore a file, but have gone in and played with it to see how much it actually keeps. It's amazing that you can find a file you deleted weeks ago...

[zeropur]

It just seems toooooooo easy.