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

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.

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Monday, March 09 2009 @ 08:28 AM PDT