Impossible to back up DT to iDisk?

DEVONthink Tips
1

I have a earlier tried to use Backup to back up DT to iDisk without success. Recently updated to Backup 2 and tried again, with the same result.

This time as before it’s the DEVONthink-2.database Backup stumbles on, after having (according to status bar) read something like three quarters of the file.

Does anyone know why?

2

Actually this should work (as there’s nothing special about the DEVONthink files) and we’ve done this successfully before. Maybe DEVONthink was running during the backup? Then this could fail.

3

Thanks for a quick answer. Yes it should work. after all it’s just a (albeit large) document type file. But I have beeen trying it so many times now, with the application closed and with earlier Backup and OSX versions. Have posted a question about it on Apple’s .mac forum. Will tell you if something comes out from it. Don’t expect them to be as prompt as you.

4

I have succeeded in backing up to iDisk using the automatic daily function of Backup. HOWEVER I must say that I was a bit shocked at the size of the database files. At first I selected the whole folder in user/Library/Application/DevonThink, but then realized that I could do without the duplicate ~ files.
With Backup it is of course possible to choose just
DevonThink-1.database
DevonThink-2.database
DevonThink-3.database
DevonThink-4.database
Even so, a small collection of some two hundred .txt and .rtf files comes to 36 mb–almost all of that in DevonThink-2.database. The others are under one mb each. Is this normal?

It is not only a problem of space on my iDisk, but also the time involved in uploading, even with broadband.

Michael

5

Please try "Backup & Optimize" - this improves both performance and file sizes.