Make more than one backup. Test them both before you wipe. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer [email protected] http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:34 PM, René J.V. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday February 15 2015 09:24:52 Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> So, before I wipe the thing, does anyone have any horror stories? Can I >> put complete trust in my Time Capsule etc? > > What are you intending to do? A clean install, or just a format and then > reinstall from backup which will hopefully leave you with little to no free > space fragmentation (supposing you have a HDD)? > > I myself have a confirmed faith in CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) combined with a > series of external harddisks. Either make a fresh clone, wipe your main boot > disk, and clone back onto it, or do a fresh install and then use the > Migration Assistant to pull of everything you want from the clone (yes, > that'll work though you may have to boot off the external once for everything > to be in place). > >> In the TC's defence, I've only ever had to use it once, when I deleted the >> wrong file... I had to go back about a week. Whew! > > That's what TM is great for. But I wouldn't want to have to do without the > possibility to boot off an external with a recent clone of my set-up! > > R. > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
