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I just spent the last 24 hours getting my Quad up and running again. While I was able to get everything back with no loss of data or profile, it was just a PITA to copy the profile info back and forth, reformat the partition to get rid of some odd error (ever had an install of OSX tell you it FAILED?) copy the profile back to the new system folder and run Repair Permissions about 10 times to get everything right.
This would have been a lot easier if I had done a TM backup and simply just restored from it. So now TM is busily backing up my entire drive. When it does hourly/daily updates, does it just add the changes or does it create a whole new backup of the drive itself. I'm hoping for the former because with the latter it's going to eat drive space like mad. Looks like I'll need to get a new dedicated drive to slap into my 8 bay case just for backups. Ah well.
This would have been a lot easier if I had done a TM backup and simply just restored from it. So now TM is busily backing up my entire drive. When it does hourly/daily updates, does it just add the changes or does it create a whole new backup of the drive itself. I'm hoping for the former because with the latter it's going to eat drive space like mad. Looks like I'll need to get a new dedicated drive to slap into my 8 bay case just for backups. Ah well.