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WeatherCat => WeatherCat Feature Requests => Topic started by: jf-i2r on March 17, 2013, 09:40:24 AM

Title: time machine and weathercat
Post by: jf-i2r on March 17, 2013, 09:40:24 AM

hi

is Weathercat have troubles if using time-machine ?

thanks

jean frederic

Title: Re: time machine and weathercat
Post by: jace on March 17, 2013, 12:39:41 PM

Hi Jean Fredric

I've got Time machine running constantly, backing up to a USB 1TB external drive, have had no problems at all.

JC

Title: Re: time machine and weathercat
Post by: jf-i2r on March 17, 2013, 03:31:02 PM

thanks JC  ;)

Title: Re: time machine and weathercat
Post by: Bull Winkus on September 08, 2013, 07:21:28 PM

Just ran across this posted thread from early in the year and thought it might be important to add something here.

Time Machine can run into trouble when the imagery files start to add up. It depends on the frequency of the grabs, though. In my case, with the frequency for all 3 channels set to 30 minutes in the Preferences, in about a year Time Machine was barely getting finished with its hourly backup by the end of the hour, leading to the impression that it was running all the time. My guess is that the number of files it had to index and cross reference for 'if modified' was getting too large.

I implemented two solutions for this problem:

Most importantly, I initiated a procedure to manually archived the images for all three channels as they aged, moving the files to an external HD. While WC can't access them there, they are still available for movie creation of past weather events.

Second, I located a program called TimeMachineEditor which allows one to set the Time Machine to backup once a day, in my case at 4:30 am.

http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/