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This morning I had to do my fifth rebuild of OS-X 10.6 in just over three months and my second in five days. It's now working beautifully, but then it was just after the last rebuild...
But I discovered something really useful that I hadn't spotted before. After reloading the OS you get the option to reinstall from a TM backup. I have always skipped this step before but this time I accepted it. I then discovered that you can do a partial restore including installed programs, which has saved me many hours of work.
I don't know whether I have a H/W fault, given how unreliable my machine has been for months. But given how slickly it's now running that seems hard to imagine.
I have a question. I have always skipped a certain class of data files when making TM backups, because I can reload them from outside and they would just greatly slow down the TM process. But this time I forgot a new group of files that I didn't have anywhere else, so I've lost them (and the 20+ hours it took to download them!). I'm considering moving to a complete TM backup.
I have a selection of blank USB disks available, but nothing between 320gb (not big enough for a complete TM backup) and 1tb (way bigger than I need). My question is - can I use a TM disk for anything else as well? I will never need more than 500gb as that's how big my internal drive is, so otherwise I'll be wasting the other 500gb on that external drive.
Actually I have another question. Does a TM backup save the entire system, warts and all? So if there's a problem lurking will that be replicated in the backup? If so then I'd better do another backup right now, while my machine's running sweetly and there don't seem to be any problems. Even though I'm now running 10.6.6 rather than 10.6.8.
But I discovered something really useful that I hadn't spotted before. After reloading the OS you get the option to reinstall from a TM backup. I have always skipped this step before but this time I accepted it. I then discovered that you can do a partial restore including installed programs, which has saved me many hours of work.
I don't know whether I have a H/W fault, given how unreliable my machine has been for months. But given how slickly it's now running that seems hard to imagine.
I have a question. I have always skipped a certain class of data files when making TM backups, because I can reload them from outside and they would just greatly slow down the TM process. But this time I forgot a new group of files that I didn't have anywhere else, so I've lost them (and the 20+ hours it took to download them!). I'm considering moving to a complete TM backup.
I have a selection of blank USB disks available, but nothing between 320gb (not big enough for a complete TM backup) and 1tb (way bigger than I need). My question is - can I use a TM disk for anything else as well? I will never need more than 500gb as that's how big my internal drive is, so otherwise I'll be wasting the other 500gb on that external drive.
Actually I have another question. Does a TM backup save the entire system, warts and all? So if there's a problem lurking will that be replicated in the backup? If so then I'd better do another backup right now, while my machine's running sweetly and there don't seem to be any problems. Even though I'm now running 10.6.6 rather than 10.6.8.