Re: time machine?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:07 -0800 

Hi,
I am sure you already know, you can use Carbonite on your Mac.
Max.

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Subject: Re: time machine?
From: Alex Hall <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:54:11 -0500

Thanks for the responses. Regarding my last question:
1. You create a novel in Text Edit, saving it as a single document.
2. You back up your mac, which, of course, backs up your novel in the
process. Let us say this was done on January 1.
3. You come back to the novel a week later, making extensive
modifications. Unfortunately, your mac goes crazy and you restore from
your January 1 backup.
What happens to your novel? Do you retain the January 8 version, or is
that overwritten with the January 1 version? I have Carbonite on
Windows, but before I had that I tended to save to my hard drive and
make backups every month or so. In the above example, then, I would
not have backed up every itteration of the novel, and would probably
have done a backup a few weeks later. The restore, then, would happen
between my backups, so what would happen to the file in question? I
hope that makes sense.

On 2/3/12, Scott Howell<[email protected]>  wrote:

Alex answers follow below:

On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Alex Hall wrote:

1. Will any external hard drive work?

ALex you may use any external drive you like. However, you should ensure you
have of course sufficient capacity and in fact you may consider having a
drive that is at least twice the capacity of the drive you are backing up.
THis is not a requirement, but a consideration.



2. Do I need to format it in a special way? If so, can I make a
partition on it to use for backups and leave the rest readable by
Windows computers?

I do not recall whether it matters, but the TIme Machine utility takes care
of this if I recall correctly. You could split the drive into multiple
partitions and choose where you want TIme Machine to place the backups.


3. Is time machine fully accessible?

I have not had any problems using TIme Machine.



4. Are time machine backups readable? That is, if I wanted a file off
an old backup but did not want to restore the whole thing, could I
just browse to that file and copy it like normal?

Yes.


5. Is anything not backed up?

The only files that come to mind which are not backed up are those that have
no impact on operation of your Mac. In other words these are files you do
not have direct access to and are only used by the current instance of the
OS. So if you restored the entire machine or cloned the drive you would not
want these files.


6. If I had to restore, and I had newer files than in the backup, what
happens? In other words, is there a way to restore only system folders
so that files modified since the backup are not overwritten with older
versions?

Interesting question since I'm not sure how this condition  would occur
really. I'm trying to invision a scenario  that might apply in this case.

hth,



Thanks in advance.
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