Existing users, 
I have a Mac Mini that is the home's Time Machine "server", all my other macs back up to attached drives on the Mini.
I just tried Back-in-Time; my MacBook Pro has the remote volume on the Mini that serves as the Pro's TM backup destination mounted. In fact TM just made a successful backup 20 minutes ago. I invoked Back-in-Time and when it's window appeared on the desktop, it told me "Time Machine Data not found". The mounted TM volume is on my desktop, but BIT couldn't find it. So I dragged the volume's icon into BIT, but again BIT said that no TM data could be found.
I opened the volume to verify that the sparseBundle file is there, it is. So for me, BIT can't reach my TM backups.
Back-In-Time
Increase Time Machine restoration possibilities.
Version: 1.4.2
Doesn't work on my mounted remote drive
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: pvonk46 Sunday, March 08 2009 @ 06:29 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
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Doesn't work on my mounted remote drive - pvonk46
Okay, did more reading (this is not my day) and made an alias of the sparsebundle file and put it in a special BIT folder for aliases. Tested this and it works. If the sparsebundle is not mounted, BIT will mount it. Unfortunately, I get a small window saying it's opening the file. That stays there at least 15 minutes. But if I press the "Skip" button, the mount appears on the desktop and BIT recognizes it.I've played around a bit and find the information from BIT quite helpful - especially looking at a folder and having either current files listed or having all files that once were in the folder and have been since deleted. There's a lot more information I can get that isn't easily obtained from TM.
This is the same company that makes Tri-Backup, my previous backup app of choice (it could handle net connections better than any others). Since I now use Time Machine (and Chronosync for special backups), I've given up Tri-Backup. But that was a good app. So far, BIT seems to be well designed and works well.
Monday, March 09 2009 @ 08:28 AM PDT
Doesn't work on my mounted remote drive - pvonk46
I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't read the instructions carefully enough - I'm supposed to *open* the sparsebundle file first. I've done that and BIT is up and running.The opened sparsebundle file icon usually appears on the desktop when TM begins a backup and goes away when it's done. To use BIT I have to manually mount the remote drive, and open the sparse bundle (assuming TM hasn't opened it for an hourly backup). A bit inconvenient, but I suppose that's what has to be done by an external app like BIT.
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Monday, March 09 2009 @ 07:50 AM PDT