24 hours of Leopard: Time Machine

just bought leopard and a 500Gb HD for my AEBS, but wireless time machine definitely does no work (at least not that i have been able to figure out). i had read a while back that it was possible, but i didnt check the updated info before getting leopard as a present. anyone know of wireless support of time machine backup or a fix is in the near future? any rumors?

We installed Leopard on a IMAC with a 250 gb hard drive. How big an external drive do I need to have Time Machine work well?

Leopard Time Machine is a piece of junk ! It really doesn't work! I backed up everything I had (about300gig.) into a 700 gig hard drive and after the third day I got a message that there was not enough space in my back up disk to do anymore backups???
Tried to change the options for backing up every day instead of every hour and Leopard won't let you. So I had to erase my back up disk and download the latest version of "Carbon Copy Cloner" (free) and finally I am able to get a real and trusty way of backing everything up.

Like so many folks, Time Machine sounds great but we use two laptops Wirelessly with an Airport Extreme Base Station. We even use wireless mice. I can't imagine plugging in a hard drive every hour for backups.

I sure hope they allow wireless capabliity soon. As someone one mentioned, after the intial backup (which I could attach the drive locally to achieve), there wouldn't be much to backup as a general rule so bandwidth really isn't an issue.

I love Apple. I love their hardware, their software, and their OS.

I am INFURIATED by the change to Time Machine to dis-allow use of network drives. It worked in beta, right up to release. Now, it can only back up to drives that are being shared by a Leopard machine. It won't even work with Linux drives shared over AFP with netatalk. It feels like something Microsoft would do, like a naked attempt to sell more Leopard licenses.

You need to update this, Lisa. AppleInsider is reporting that wireless use of TimeMachine is prohibited on the AEBS. A lot of people, myself included, are really hacked.

Nice touch: when I chose to exclude my System folder from the backup, Time Machine asked me if I wanted to exclude ALL system files, not just the folder. Very intelligent and helpful.

I'm sure everyone will *want* to use this feature, but I don't think that everyone will *actually* use it. The way I understand it is that it requires a drive (or partition) that can be formatted as HSF+. I think this is why it won't work on the Airport Extremes - I don't think you can get at all the features of HSF+ over a network share.

The way Time Machine works under the hood is pretty slick, but that's probably a post for anohter day.

Either way I don't think I'm going to keep plugging in a usb drive to my MBP every hour or even every day - that's just not convenient. They really need to update the AEBS to work with Time Machine for it to be really convenient on a laptop. That is... of course... IMHO. :)

Time Machine seems ideal for the time gap between creating or working on data, and getting it backed up permanently.

But.. how well does it integrate with actual applications, as many are database based for access speed reasons (iPhoto, even iTunes, etc.) and require consistency of files and metadata files?

My local electronics store has external 500 GB LaCie drives on offer for 99 euros (). However, I have a 250 gig internal drive and two other external drives that I'd like to have covered by Time Machine.

They are 160 and 320 gigs... so for a real backup I would need an external drive of 750 gigs at least? Or is there some kind of compression going on as well?

The Apple TM site isn't all to clear about drive size requirements on this... :/