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10.5: Insure that Time Machine runs on FileVault accounts
Authored by: the_mace on Dec 12, '07 07:49:38PM

The convergence of Time Machine, File Vault and Spotlight is a mess.

You're best off to create encrypted disk images for the stuff you want to keep safe (and only mount them when you need them) and leave the rest unencrypted.

This keeps the incremental backups small and you dont end up encrypting your music library and other silly things.

Plea to apple: Make file vault more granular without forcing us to have piles of disk images around. Allow images to be searchable if they're mounted etc and back them up when unmounted.




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