On Sep 30, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > So, what if the current location wasn't in the TM backup and you wanted to > restore a different location onto this current location? Is this possible > from the starfield? I did it through direct Finder copying.
You get a popup asking you where you want the file or folder restored to. > I am not talking about restoring the boot partition to a new partition, but > another partition that was included in the TM Backup, e.g. a data partition > called Data1 in the backup but now called Data2. I like Time Machine and use it for my primary backup, because I like its restore capabilities. But eventually it corrupts itself. So every 6-9 months I'm blowing away Time Machine backups, and hence no archive. So in this data only context, the advantage of Time Machine is less, if not an outright disadvantage. For data only disk or partition, I suggest using CCC and enable the checksum option (leveraged in recent [1] versions of rsync, which is included with CCC). There is a feature to recompute new checksums from the backed up files and compare to the previously computed checksums, to authenticate the veracity of the data on the disk. You don't have this at all with Time Machine + JHFS+/X + consumer drives. The user data is not nearly as easily replaceable as the operating system and applications. So I use Time Machine for the convenience of backup-restore of the OS and apps and user preferences. But important data I backup a different way. Chris Murphy [1] On Lion and Mountain Lion, rsync v2.6.9, circa 2006, is included and is f'n ancient, do not use, why bother include it, Apple? I get it, rsync moved to GPL v3 just like SAMBA did. Apple's vendetta against GPL v3 will cost us ever more good open source software via entropy. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
