macfidelity

James Duncan wrote an interessting article about restoring a Leopard installation from Time Machine.

His conclusion as quote:

In short, Time Machine passed the Trust, but Verify challenge with flying colors. I’m pretty happy about that as it means that I can recommend that my friends and family including my Dad who just bought an iMac not too long ago can use Time Machine as a totally automatic backup mechanism. There are, however, two caveats to using Time Machine as your only backup strategy. The first is that you really should keep your data in at least three places and one of those places should be offsite. You should either continue with your existing offsite backup strategy for your most important documents or maybe you should consider rotating two disks as Time Machine volumes. Then again, if you’re currently not backing up at all, having even a single Time Machine backup volume is a massive improvement.

The second caveat is that restoring from a Time Machine backup is not particularly fast. If you often find yourself on deadline, hitting a half-day’s worth of downtime due to a hard drive crash might not be acceptable to you. In fact, if you have a hard drive crash, you may be looking at a full day’s worth of downtime by the time you secure a new disk and install it. For folks like my Dad, this kind of thing isn’t too big an inconvenience. You can start up a backup, go off and do something else, and come back to a restored system. However, it’s the kind of thing that I’d like to try to avoid in my day to day work, especially when I’m on deadline. If this sounds like you, you’ll want to look at having a ready copy of your boot volume by using a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner. SuperDuper! has also been a great Mac OS X choice, but isn’t quite ready for Leopard yet. Hopefully, it will be soon.

Great……i was just going to test it myself…..but now ?

Yeah right…..Trust….but Verify hehe

• 10.5 ::: Time Machine Scheduling
• How create a clone / backup of your hard-drive
• 10.5 ::: Time Machine and external disks

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