Nope - I bought a 1TB portable drive from the apple shop for $110 and it backs it up onto the drive. You can navigate to the folders on the drive down to a specific file (I was worried like you - but felt much better when I could view the individual folders/files and see my photos!). But the most impressive thing was how it restored my entire macbook including all my apps etc (only needed to reactivate one app so far - all the rest seem to still work OK including parallels) - very impressed with the experience.
*Regards,* *Steven Parish* *Managing Director* *BusinessCraft Pty Ltd* *Address:* Level 1, 270 Turton Road, New Lambton NSW 2305 *Mail:* PO Box 57, Lambton NSW 2299 *M:* 0417 688 599 | *T:* 02 4965 5555 | *F:* 02 4965 5333 *www.businesscraft.com.au <http://www.businesscraft.com/>* On 24 January 2017 at 09:53, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just had the experience of a crashing macbook pro - short story, the >> "timemachine" backup worked flawlessly for me >> > > But doesn't TimeMachine backup to some hidden location on the same > hard-drive? I don't consider that a "real" backup. If I had NBN I could > backup the whole lot to the cloud in a 15 seconds. > > Later this morning I'll to drop in to the local shop and get another 32GB > SanDisk stick <https://www.sandisk.com.au/home/usb-flash/ultra-usb> (my > Windows one is blazing fast), format it as HFS and use one of these > commands: cp <http://ss64.com/osx/cp.html>, ditto > <http://ss64.com/osx/ditto.html>, rcp <http://ss64.com/osx/rcp.html> or > rsync <http://ss64.com/osx/rsync.html> (too many choices). I last used cp > in 1993, the other commands I can't remember and might be more recent > inventions. > > *GK* >
