In preparation for the coming of Snow Leopard, I decided to purchase a new external hard drive. My 500GB was full and I wanted to make sure I had both a Time Machine backup and a manual backup of my user folder before I do a clean install of Snow Leopard. So off I went to the nearest mall and got myself a 1TB external hard drive.
Now, I tried moving my Time Machine back up before from a 200GB hard drive to my 500GB and I thought it was just as simple as dragging the files and resuming it from …read more

[via MacRumors]
Apple released updates for Time Machine and Aiport a few days ago and according to Mac Rumors some of its readers are writing in to say that you can now backup wirelessly to an Airport Extreme Base Station with an external USB drive attached.
Now this is certainly a good thing. An Airport Extreme with Gigabit Ethernet costs $179. You can buy a external drive such as a Lacie 500gb external drive for $115 at Comp USA. That totals to $294. That’s 5 dollars cheaper than the 500GB Time Capsule and you can even get more savings by getting a …read more

MacWorld has a great article which gives you a breakdown if Time Machine is right for you. From the surface Time Machine seems to be the answer to our backup prayers but as the article points out, it’s really not for everyone.
One of Time Machine’s drawbacks is that it really requires a lot of space to be effective. The writer suggests that you have to have at least 1.5 times your start-up disk’s space. It doesn’t compress files.
Time Machine also doesn’t make bootable backups. Unlike other backup programs.
Should Time Machine be your sole backup system? Nope. I got …read more