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10.5: Exclude local iDisk mirror disk from Time Machine
Under Leopard, if you turn off iDisk Syncing and then turn it back on, your local copy of your iDisk is recreated as a SparseBundle. The advantage to this is that when a file is deleted from a SparseBundle, the system is able to immediately reduce the file size of the image because it's actually a series of 8 meg files segmented to make up the entire image. (Right click on a SparseBundle and choose "Show Package Contents" and in the folder Bands will be these files)
10.5: Exclude local iDisk mirror disk from Time Machine
You are correct. It is easy to check. Right click time machine and back up now. Then go to your time machine volume, check the amount of space taken up by used space. Then, make a tiny change on the idisk.. say add a byte to some text file. Then backup again with time machine. My idisk has about 1GB of space used but after this test, the time machine volume is only using about 1MB of extra space from the first backup.. it does not backup the entire volume, but only the *bands* within the package of the sparsebundle which have changed.
10.5: Exclude local iDisk mirror disk from Time Machine
Now that (iDisk SparseBundle feature) is seriously cool. Thanks for the tip!
10.5: Exclude local iDisk mirror disk from Time Machine
It seems to me a considerable amount of tech knowledge is needed to manage iDisk. My geekability is low, I just want to be a user. I am going back to dropbox which is much friendlier. If only I could figure out how to get rid of 'Previous local idisk' and all the other associated space consuming junk which is littering my Macbook. |
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