Time Machine Question for PT Users..

[tomhartman]

Am I right in assuming that people using Time Machine are using it to back up their main startup drive?

I mean it would be great to have it back up your audio files, but you would have to buy a new drive every two weeks I suppose, since it is trying to keep everything...a little confused on this....

thanks
TH

[Stickman7]

I may be wrong about this but I believe you're supposed to
disable time machine. Pro Tools is not compatable...

[Will Russell]

I run Time Machine behind ProTools all day with no problems. It runs in the background and by the end if the day I'm mostly backed up.

[youbringmesuffering]

to free up processing space, i turn off time machine, and blue tooth and wireless when i go into PTLE, but i turn on time machine after i'm done to do a back up. it works really well for backing up but it can kinda hog, especially if using a FW external drive.

i recommend not running it while in session but turn it on afterwards to back up.

[Concerttom]

I too run Time Machine while on Pro Tools with no evident problems. It leaves you with a large backlog of system saves with zero effort. I'm a fan.

[jonslaten]

I too run Time Machine while running PT8. I was just recording a few minutes ago and noticed time machine backing up my machine while I was in the middle of recording a solo. No issues ever.

[stainless]

same here- no problems running Time Machine all the time- I used to turn it off... which would periodically result in me forgetting to turn back on. If I'm mixing a particularly large session with lots of plug-ins I may turn it off... but anymore it just does it's thing in te background. I have a separate partion on an external drive and it holds ~ 30 days worth of back-ups and drops the oldest one off

I figure if I haven't discovered a problem in 30 days.... I either don't have, or I'm not payiong attention and deserve mental anguish