On 2008-05-14 17:22:45 +0100, wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Andy Hewitt)
said:
> Justin C <justin.0805@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Where or in what format are the backups from Backup stored? I
downloaded
>> the software (after signing up for a full .mac account) and backed up
>> about 40GB, however, all I can find as evidence of the backup is some
>> stuff under ~/Library/Application Sup****t/Bakup/Backup Library/
>>
>> What is there isn't very big at all (I want to archive it and ****ft it
>> to another machine), but the disk space that has disappeared matches
the
>> amount of data that was backed up... so where did it go?!
>>
>> Thank you for any help you can give with this.
>>
>> Justin.
>
> It'll backup to wherever you told it to! Where did you backup the 40GB
> to? If it was the main drive, then it was a waste of time if you had a
> drive failure.
>
> Normally you'd backup to a separate, external, disk drive, or some of it
> can be stored on your .Mac space.
>
> Open the Backup application and double click on the backup plan, then
> double click on the drive at the bottom of the box that opens, that will
> then show you where it is.
As far as I can tell Apple's Backup.app just create disk images with
the backed up files in, just hidden inside a package wrapper to foil
the Finder.
Cheers,
Chris
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