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How to know if time machine is making full system backups


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Old 08-02-2013, 12:20 PM
Long story short I tried to merge two partitions and wasn't able to. The logical answer was to format everything and restore a time machine backup.

Unfortunately the latest restorable system backup was done in April.

How do I ensure that time machine is making restorable system backups regularly?

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Old 08-02-2013, 03:19 PM
You can gauge how much Time Machine is backing up by opening Time Machine from System Preferences while the backup is being performed. It will show you the amount of data which is being backed up. An initial TM backup with nothing excluded should backup everything. Thereafter, it will only backup what has changed.
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Old 08-02-2013, 03:51 PM
Thanks for the reply.

So are all of the able to be used for a full system restore?
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Old 08-02-2013, 09:35 PM
TM doesn't back up the OS itself, just your files. To restore, you should reinstall OSX, then restore everything else from TM.
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Old 08-02-2013, 09:45 PM
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TM doesn't back up the OS itself, just your files. To restore, you should reinstall OSX, then restore everything else from TM.
This is incorrect.

Time Machine backs up *EVERYTHING* on the boot drive. No exceptions unless you the user choose to exclude something. It does indeed back up the OS, apps, etc *everything.*

What it does NOT do is back it up in a bootable form (ie a clone). But you can indeed do a FULL system restore from a TM backup.
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Old 08-02-2013, 09:52 PM
You are correct. I was thinking bootable. Thank you, sir.
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Old 08-05-2013, 02:59 PM
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This is incorrect.

Time Machine backs up *EVERYTHING* on the boot drive. No exceptions unless you the user choose to exclude something. It does indeed back up the OS, apps, etc *everything.*

What it does NOT do is back it up in a bootable form (ie a clone). But you can indeed do a FULL system restore from a TM backup.
I always wondered about that, that's for the info.

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