When you setup TM backups on each of the MBs as long as you did not exclude any items from being backed up, they will be complete system backups.
System Preferences > Time Machine > click on 'Options' - Exclude these items from backups: If there is nothing there on each of the MacBooks or only perhaps something not important to the system. It is a complete backup that TM is doing. Cheers, Ronni who is on the road now Sent from Ronni's iPad On 14/04/2012, at 8:05 AM, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ronnie, that is all nice to know. Seems I am ok to leave as is. > > How do I verify the backups being configured as "complete system" backups and > not just a Users Home Directory backup? > > Thanks for the link. > > Pete > > > > On 14/04/2012, at 7:56 AM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> As long as the Time Capsule drive doesn't die first; you are good. >> Also I am assuming all the MacBooks are complete system backups (not just >> Users Home Directory). >> >> Each computer has its own Sparse disk Image bundle (sparsebundle) on the >> backup drive. >> So you can restore one without harming any of the others. >> >> To answer your question: >> >>> If I were to buy a new one, it would undoubtedly be a Lion OSx, so does >>> this make in difference in the restoration process? >> No not at all. >> Simply launch Migration Assistant, select your Time Machine backup and >> select which settings and users to copy. It doesn't care that your backup is >> a Snow Leopard backup. >> >> For more information here is an article about how to use Migration Assistant >> in Snow Leopard. It is virtually the same in Lion. >> >> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27921.html> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 13/04/2012, at 8:53 PM, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, this is a question for precautionary purposes. We have 3 Macbooks >>> in my house all using Snow Leopard, Two of them are the Black plastic >>> bodied Macbook (2.4 GHz core 2 duo) for kids ~2007 vintage I think and the >>> other is a White plastic one 2.26 GHz (core 2 duo) ~2009 I think. They are >>> all set up and using Time Machine for constant back ups. >>> >>> My question, if one of them were to have a fatal hard disc failure, can I >>> either get the hard disc replaced, and restore it to its previous >>> configuration, or buy a new Macbook and then configure the new Macbook to >>> the same config? If I were to buy a new one, it would undoubtedly be a Lion >>> OSx, so does this make in difference in the restoration process? >>> >>> When restored, what settings will need further fine tuning - if any? >>> >>> Hopefully someone can advise as I want to be sure that I am not living in a >>> false sense of security thinking that the Time Capsule is my saviour when >>> it may not be in the event of a failure. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Pete. >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
