Restore to alternate disk (external) and boot from it. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
On Feb 14, 2015, at 3:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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
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