I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive fail, so I had an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius' was very happy when he saw the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing was lost.
About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac. The backups are in Amazon's S3, and the frequency is settable: I have one done every hour. You set a limit on how much space you want to use -- just as a Time Machine has a fixed size -- and once you hit that limit, it will overwrite the oldest versions as necessary. Also the paid version of DropBox keeps at least some history. For saving a Time Machine offsite, Amazons Glacier storage is one cent a gigabyte per month, so your 150 gigabytes would be $18 per year. They really hit you with transfer charges if you try to read a large amount in a short time, but since that presumably happens only when your Mac and your time machine have both been roasted in a fire, you probably will be happy to pay them. Unfortunately 150 gigs is not enough for most time machines. --Barry On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Robert J. Cordingley" <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: > So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud (or a > Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any statistics on > success rate?
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