On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A faculty member here upgraded to Leopard some time back, I kept > nagging him about setting up a Time Machine volume. > > Well, a couple weeks ago his drive started acting funky, and a quick > trip to Disk Utility revealed SMART failures. > > He ran right out and got a big external drive, fired up TM and backed > his system up. > > Well the replacement drive came in today, he popped it in, booted from > the 10.5 DVD, and restored the entire thing from his TM volume, took > about 2 hours all told.
Time Machine Rules! Saved my bacon when a catastrophic hard drive failure happened recently in my 17" MacBook Pro. Didn't lose a thing! Also gave me an excuse to upgrade to a 500gb drive. <g> Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
