On 2010-06-04 01:48 , AlunFoto wrote:
Since I don't own a Mac, why would I have wasted money on a Time Machine? :-)
But truth be told, I investigated the possiblilty of using a TM to
back up my windows computers.
really? Time Machine is software built into Mac OS X, you can't buy it
separately, and you can't use it on Windows (you could rsync from
Windows to a Mac server and let Time Machine from take it from there --
a workable low-tech solution in a heterogeneous environment)
you seem have Time Machine confused with Time _Capsule_, which is a
wireless/wired router plus NAS that Apple sells; on a Mac it integrates
with Time Machine, but it doesn't automate backups for Windows, so would
just be a somewhat spiffy router & raw NAS
<http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/>
but yeah, I
think I know what the TM does.
or what the Time _Capsule_ does?
Anyway, I know there are lots of Mac aficionados on this list like
yourself, Steve Harley, Cotty and David Mann, but the more you're
demonstrating their knowledge, the more likely it becomes that one
actually _has_ to invest just as much into system knowledge with Macs
as you have to with Windows, in order to use the system optimally.
define optimally?
i've invested a lot in learning Mac OS, but i'm a software developer; i
don't seek to know everything, i seek to know principles; so it helps
that from both a users and a developer's perspective the Mac OS X the
architecture is very consistent; being able to use my Unix skills that
stem from circa 1980 is also handy; but i can also let go of knowing
details and trust certain aspects of the system to "just work", though
they'll tend to behave in ways a more basic user would prefer; that's
what i like about the iPhone, for example -- i can't tweak it, so i just
let go and use it
So instead, imagine I was a total newbie [...]
Someone tells me I should have a backup outside the Mac too, so I buy
a TM and plug it in. [...]
actually, you can use any hard drive with the Time Machine software
Then one day shit happens, [...]
In this scenario, I must totally rely on the system. Would I retrieve
everything? [...]
>
Oh, and of course I will most likely run into a problem with Adobe's
bitchy DRM on LR [...]
What say you?
yes, that's how Time Machine works (apart from the confusion with Time
Capsule); in a total restoration scenario (which i haven't done
personally) you can restore your whole setup to any computer and
everything works; there are gotchas with activation schemes which are
keyed to the physical hard drive; i'm not sure if Adobe still does that,
but in those cases software may need reactivation, or if the activation
scheme is particularly stupid, reinstallation
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