TIME MACHINE BUDDY

 
 

The Time Machine Buddy organises and displays the systems logs generated by Apple’s Time Machine Backup feature found in Mac OS X Leopard.   With this widget you will be able to quickly tell what is happening behind the scenes for the backup in progress or any previous backups.

 

The widget will poll the system logs for backups every 15 minutes.  If a backup is active it will poll every 5 seconds until completed.  If the Dashboard is closed all polling is stopped.   You can manually trigger a refresh by mouse clicking the refresh button.


Since this widget only reads the system logs it will not interfere or disrupt the Time Machine.


Known Issues:  Multiple manual backups may appear in the same message window if triggered immediately after each other.


The user running the Dashboard must have “administration” rights for the widget to read the system.log file.  Open “System Preferences” then “Accounts” and check “Allow user to administer this computer” for the selected account.


Feedback can be sent to widgets@bluedog.com.au

Download v1.03http://www.bluedog.com.au/downloads/latest/TimeMachineBuddy.ziphttp://www.bluedog.com.au/downloads/latest/TimeMachineBuddy.zipshapeimage_1_link_0

Release Notes for v1.03

-  Correct the lapsed time for sub-sequential backups.

Release Notes for v1.02

  1. -Fix parsing bug with backupd messages missing System package prefix

  2. -Add error logging to system.log.