On 2010-06-03 03:18 , AlunFoto wrote:
Or are there any Mac users here who can stand up and guarantee that a Mac and a Time Machine will provide adequate backup of all user data straight out of the box.
define "adequate backup" ... and just who would guarantee any backup without a high-priced monthly contract?
Time Machine is a good basic backup, but it's not industrial-grade or even in itself "business grade"; but that's not it's intent; it's not a belt & suspenders approach, it's a expandable elastic waistband approach; the real issue is that 95% of personal computer users don't do any real backups; Time Machine does a lot to help change that; it regularly saves people's butts
out of the box the user gets an incremental backup system that can restore the state of the entire machine (to another machine if necessary), but it is not very sophisticated in terms of technical management tools; and a user would have to think a bit to make their backups redundant or off-site; personally i use Time Machine as part of a multi-pronged approach; Time Machine is probably the simplest of any backup system i have used, even though i've tweaked it a bit
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