Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're right; restoring from a good copy of Time Machine can be
relatively simple and easy, but if you've got 400Gb on your hard
drive you better have a day free.
In any case, a bootable clone is a good idea, as it also is a second
backup which is (unfortunately) sometimes needed. I _never_ have just
one backup of my photos.
At 1:06 PM -0700 8/27/09, George Hartzell wrote:
>The ability to instantly boot and go could be a very important
>advantage. Sooner or later you're going to have to invest the time to
>switch over onto a replacement disk, but it might be nice to delay it
>until it's convenient.
>
>I think that your description of using Time Machine to recover from a
>dead drive isn't quite accurate and is a bit pessimistic. You replace
>the dead drive (either internally or just attach a external
>usb/firewire drive), boot off of the OS X DVD, and tell it to restore
>from the Time Machine backup. You don't need to go through the steps
>of installing OS X, and I think that it'll even take care of
>formatting the disk for you. How long it takes to copy all of the
>data over does depend on how big your disks are.
>
>You're right though, having a recent bootable backup is indeed handy.
>
>Thanks for the details!
>
>g.
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