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#1
Espionage 2 / Re: Espionage and the Time Maschine problem
February 28, 2010, 12:59:56 AM
Quote from: "greg"Actually, Time Machine will backup the data (encrypted) whether the folder is locked or unlocked. When the folder is unlocked, the hidden disk image is in the parent folder, and Time Machine will back that up.

Yes, you are right. And exactly that possible double backup is bothered by me.

Quote from: "greg"For more information, please see this tip on ensuring optimal Time Machine backups.

Yes, I have already read this document, but i really like that time maschine is a version-based backup, and it would be nice to also use it with the Espionage images.

Quote from: "greg"Do you mean prevent Espionage from moving the disk image? This is something that may be possible (I'm not sure), but it would require completely changing how Espionage works, and it would have several disadvantages over the current behavior. In short, it may be possible, but the only alternative has some serious disadvantages, and it would require rewriting much of Espionage, so it's unlikely to happen.

Yes, I fully undestand, that this step would imply a rather drastically change to the current product.

What I am concerned about is a complete restore of all my backups, when my complete hard disk is crashed:
The most files can be restored via time maschine but when I have excluded the disk images and folders, I have to manually restore every single disk image out of the backup folder of Espionage (as far as i have understand). And that can be a very annoying job, expecially when i have used many program templates. I need to manually find the right folder both in the backup structure, and also at the target volume......

Therefore another suggestion: Perhaps you could consider to write an automatic backup-restore. I think that would simplify the above steps a lot.
#2
Espionage 2 / Espionage and the Time Maschine problem
February 27, 2010, 01:31:58 PM
Hello,

I think Espionage is a good program, but im am a bit disappointed, that there are these problems with time maschine, despite the sparse-bundle images are really useful for the backups.

Therefore i want to ask: It is somehow possible to prevent these moving of the images every time?
I fully understand, that the behaviour now is really staightforward when copying oder backuping the encrypted folders in the locked state.

But e.g. when i encrypt my Mail folder in Application Support, i do'nt really care, if the image is saved in the Mail folder in the locked state, or remains in the parent folder.

Perhaps it is possible to include this behaviour as an option in a newer version?
Because then Time Maschine can backup the encrypted disk image and when the folder is unlocked, Time Maschine only backups an alias and not the decrypted data itself (as far as i have tested).

What do you mean about that idea?