Can I tell Apple's Time Machine to backup a single folder?

Posted by Petruza on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Petruza
Published on 2010-05-22T06:39:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 6:51 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 229

Filed under:

time-machine

|

backup

|

mac

|

osx

Additionally to TM backing up everything every hour, I'd like sometimes to tell it to quickly add a backup of a single folder. Can that be done?

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about time-machine

Time machine backup on S3

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Is there any possibility to use Amazon S3 for Mac OS X time machine backups? Or in other words: Use S3 rather an external hard disk for time machine backups? >>> More
Restoring Time Machine from two Macs onto one (new) mac

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
My parents used to have two Macs...a "iLamp-style" iMac for my Dad, and an iBook G4 for my Mom. A while back, I had setup the iMac to have an external Firewire Hard Drive for a Time Machine Volume, and backed up both the iMac and iBook to that drive. Recently, the iBook died and the iMac was really… >>> More
Time machine failing to backup as sparsebundle is already in use

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I have an airport extreme with a drive connected, and use it for backing up snow leopard macs. I have an occasional problem with one of them that says "the backup disk image ... is already in use" and it fails to backup. Any ideas? >>> More
Multiple Time Machine Network Backups

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I have FreeNAS servers at work and at home. Both are set up to back up via Time Machine. Is there a way I can tell my Macbook Pro to use both without having to manually switch in the Time Machine Preferences? >>> More
Remotely sync Time Machine drives

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have an Xserve that runs Time Machine to a local terabyte drive. I also connected my external terabyte drive for a time period and had Time Machine use it to establish the seed data. I plan to take my drive back home with me (out of state) and have the Xserve return to using its local drive for… >>> More

Related posts about backup

backup exec - backup to disk offline

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi We are running backup exec 9.1 doing a backup to disk to portable hard disk drives. When we run the backup manually it works fine. But when the backup is setup to run in the evening on a schedule it does not run as the backup to disk folders goes offline and therefore has to be switched back… >>> More
Ideal backup appliance for backup software like Bacula?

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I'm at a small company and we (the IT department of two) manage <100 client computers and a handful of servers. Currently we're using a company's appliance to handle backup; it does a small backup every night and a full backup every weekend, and a guy comes on Wednesday to take an offsite backup… >>> More
Symantec Backup Exec Error on backup

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Recently we have moved some of servers from real servers- into virtual servers. Since then, we are getting errors like the following: Error category : Resource ErrorsError : e000fed1 - A failure occurred querying the Writer status. For additional information regarding this error refer… >>> More
Windows Server Backup - Recover only shows the latest backup

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
We're having quite some trouble at work using Windows Server Backup. We have a HyperV server (Win 2008) running 8 virtual web servers, these are running a variety of OS'es: Win 2003, Win 2008 and a lone Debian. Each virtual server has a separate partition on the physical HyperV server, so e.g. E:… >>> More
Failed Backup Job With Backup Exec 12 and AOFO

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am backing up a Windows 2003 Small Business Server with SP2. We are running Backup Exec 12 with SP4. Recently the backup job started failing on backing up the system state with the following error: V-79-57344-34110 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option… >>> More