On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Alexander MacLeod wrote:
> > 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 Coming from a MS Windows background, I've always made it a habit to never put any important data on a boot volume. Since migrating to Macs I have taken it a step further and now all my data resides on a backed up file server. All of my program info as far as registration numbers reside in a text file so if I do lose a boot drive, I can easy replicate it quickly. Funny how you worry about such things more when you get a little older. Just a message from Doug... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
