<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Christopher Kavanaugh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello All,</div><div>I recently upgraded my work computer to 10.5 ( I know I know, is this 2008), anyway when time machine starts backing up it slows my g4 down quite a bit.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is not unusual. Many of us have experienced this. Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seems to want to backup much more than it should, for some bizarre reason. This is not the case in Snow Leopard, however, where it only backs up what really needs to be backed up.</div><div><br></div><div>Since a G4 can not run Snow Leopard, there are a few things that you can do to reduce the impact of Time Machine backups on your work.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Turn it OFF (in the Time Machine panel of the Systems Preferences application) when you do not want your work interrupted. Of course, this will mean that it is going to backup a whole lot more when you do turn it back on.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Use an internal drive as your backup destination. Most G4 computers can take up to four internal hard disks. Or consider installing a SATA PCI card and SATA hard disks tom improve performance -- I did this with a Digital Audio and it helped a lot.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, by the time that you purchase a good (Mac compatible) SATA card and SATA hard disk, you might have better spent that money toward an inexpensive, but more powerful, Mac (e.g., Mac mini or used Intel iMac).</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Aside from getting a new computer is there anyway to change the defaults of time machine so it only backs up when I'm not working? Thanks, also any one know of any good deals on a mac pro? Used to be able to get last years top of the line mac for almost half price at places like small dog or even the apple refurb store. Now they want 75 or 80% of retail for them. 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