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.
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