#Use lion time machine on mac mac os x

However, IвЂ™d rather have my 20GBs instead of the safety net. Now in fairness, Time Machine will not let it eat up all your internal hard drive space (as it does with an external drive) and will automatically shave off backups if you get low on space and even stop doing local backups if necessary. However, not only was this folder screwing with SuperDuper!, it was also chewing up about 20GBвЂ™s of space. It makes sense and itвЂ™s a nice thing that Apple is doing for us.

#Use lion time machine on mac mac os x

I began to wonder what this hidden folder was and after doing a little research I discovered that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has implemented a local Time Machine snapshot! The purpose of this is for MacBook/MacBook Pro users who may be away from their regular backups for a while (traveling) to have a safety net for accidentally deleted files (not drive failures). It was actually reporting that there wasnвЂ™t enough room to back this folder up, which I knew wasnвЂ™t right because the backup drive and the internal volume were the same size and therefore everything should fit. However, SuperDuper! errorвЂ™d out and when I checked the log it seemed that it was having an issue backing up something called вЂњ.Mobile BackupвЂќ.

I plugged in my portable drive and began the SuperDuper! clone. Recently I realized that I hadnвЂ™t updated my clone backup that I carry with me as a safety precaution in caseВ I have a hard drive failure while on the road, in a while.

Not only do I use Time Machine but I also do clone backups using SuperDuper! and backups to the cloud (offsite) using CrashPlan. Some might even say that IвЂ™m paranoid because of the number of different backup methods that I employ. Actually IвЂ™m a fan of backing up data in general.