And how do it test a Time Machine backup exactly? I am genuinely curious as mine got badly corrupted thanks to low quality of current HDDs.
Enviado desde mi iPad El 14/02/2015, a las 18:00, Michael Crawford <[email protected]> escribió: > 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 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
