sejtam Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 I am trialling 6.1.138 on Leopard. I selected 'Don't back up FileVault sparseimage files' but FileVault files still got backed up. maybe it's because they are no longer sparse*image* files, but /Users/./.sparsebundle/bands/ files now? Did I miss an update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Please see http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=5242&p=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sejtam Posted February 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 What does that thread have to do with my question? It talks about what FileVault is and that one should disable the sparseimage files, and log the users in. I *did* all that. The sparse*bundle* files in Leopard still get backed up. I wonder whether there is something I need to change since the FileVault in Leopard seems to be different from the one in Tiger (now using sparsebundle files instead of sparseimage files?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Looks like this is an important change, and opens the door to better backup support for Leopard. http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1231213 I wonder if unchecking the "don't backup sparseimage files" preference would just work? Dave (who doesn't use encryption, so can't easily try it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I have updated the KB article on Filevault to reflect 10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdavis99 Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Leopard 10.5 In Mac OS 10.5, Apple changed how FileVault saves the sparseimage files. Rather then using a single giant file, the encrypted data is stored as individual small files in a folder named username.sparesebundle. Retrospect 6.1.138 and 7.5.508 and earlier does not automatically exclude this folder from backup, resulting in wasted backup media. Users should create a selector to exclude Enclosing Folders with a name that ends with .sparesebundle With Retrospect Express there is no selector option, so it is backing up lots of bands from the sparsebundle for my username when I backup other Users Folders & Prefs (OS X). In Tiger it ignored my sparesimage and just backed up other users and general prefs. I have a separate script that backs up files in my logged in (filevault-protected) account. Any workaround for Express users on Leopard to back up Users Folders & Prefs without also getting sparseimage bands? --Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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