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Can anyone comment on what happens when the drive time machine is backed up to is removed? Does time machine automatically backup once the drive is reconnected, or does it backup only as files are edited? I am thinking about buying an external drive for my mbp when leopard comes out.

Nothing happens if the drive is unavaliable and the time rolls around for a backup.

 

The other possibility that works with removable drives is to set up Automatic backup, at which point whenever the drive is plugged back in, a backup will take place.

I wrote my own "time machine" softare for work back in March or April. We use external hard drives for a secondary, immediate, online backup (DVDs in case that fails), which retains the past x days of data individually. I must say it's the best sort of backup to have.

 

The fact that Apple has integrated this into the OS is really great! At work, if we all of the sudden realize something is corrupt, and has been for 23 days, we just go back 24 days on the hard drive, and boom, there's the uncorrupt file. Time Machine works the same way.

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