On Jun 3, 2010, at 02:18 , 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. From reading that famous document, the manual, I'm not convinced.
No one can guarantee anything, about anything, with the possible short term rising and setting of the sun and moon.
Time machine does a heck of a good job (right outta the box), but it's only one backup, and itself designed to back up your main drive. I use it to back up several drives as well as my internal (boot) drive. On two occasions I've had to do a restore from a Time Machine backup, and have had no problems whatsoever other than the time it takes to restore 275 GB of iTunes and 235 GB of photographic images, each upon failure of a separate hard drive. IIRC, about 2 days per. In neither case did I have a failure of the O/S, permissions, privileges, or any of the hundreds of thousands of files, showing and hidden.
I will say that I am still amazed at the number of log errors and bad files that are documented every day within those logs as the system makes on the fly corrections and/or documents anything amiss in the running software. It apparently does not bother people who write the stuff, as 99.99% of it is passed off as not worthy of note — just housekeeping.
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