Hi Paul There are a lot of different backup solutions. Whilst we do use Super Duper! for base level backups, we use our own server as well as a programme called CrashPlan to give us remote backup of our files. We tried last year to encourage others to do the same by offering online storage. But the takeup was so poor that we decided it wasn't worth the effort, so we went in a different direction.
But yes, anybody who owns a Mac should consider products such as Super Duper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. The recovery partition in Lion should work fine, and it would have probably either reinstalled the OS from scratch or, if you go into the Utilities menu I believe there's a "Restore" option so you could have restored your Super Duper! backup from there. Never actually done it, but I'm almost sure that would work. Gordon On 23 Jul 2012, at 16:38, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, Yesterday for the first time ever I had to recover my iMac from a SuperDuper! backup on an external hard disk. I now wonder what I could have done if I did not have a SuperDuper! backup. This is with Mac OS 10.7.4. After some confusion with VMWare Fusion I found that my iMac froze in VoiceOver. On re-booting VoiceOver worked OK for the Logon menu (I have a password which I have to enter to start my iMac). After that the iMac spoke a script which announces the Mac OS version and then froze in VoiceOver. My sighted wife told me that the screen showed VoiceOver muted , the mouse moved OK, but all hotkeys and track pad taps did nothing. I was able to boot from my external hard disk which contained a SuperDuper! backup only two days old so no great loss. I restored the SuperDuper! backup and all worked fine. If I did not have that SuperDuper! backup what could I have done? I notice that Lion has a recovery partition which seemed to work when I first installed Lion but does not seem to work now after numerous software updates. If that recovery partition had worked what would it have done for me? My only Mac OS CD is for Leopard so recovering from that would have been a very long and maybe now impossible job! Thank goodness for SuperDuper! but how should I advise friends in a similar position who do not have SuperDuper! Many thanks. Paul Hopewell <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
