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Time machine; reliable backup or no?
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<blockquote data-quote="6string" data-source="post: 941891" data-attributes="member: 120039"><p>A lot to agree about!...... </p><p>I use one external HD, partitioned for time machine backups and a bootable backup as well. </p><p>I don't use automatic backups, as I only want backups when I make significant changes to my system.</p><p>I use carbon copy cloner periodically as a safe guard to have a bootable version of my system just in case any of the changes that I made that are on my time machine partition come up with problems.</p><p>In saying that, quite some time ago before I used carbon copy cloner to make the bootable versions, I went into time machine and as if by magic, I had only my latest backup appearing, and couldn't go further, however when manually going into the time machine backup, I had the last 6 backups to pick and choose what I wanted to bring back to my internal HD.</p><p>This has only happened once, but that was enough for me to keep a routine of cloning as well as time machine backups whenever I make those significant changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="6string, post: 941891, member: 120039"] A lot to agree about!...... I use one external HD, partitioned for time machine backups and a bootable backup as well. I don't use automatic backups, as I only want backups when I make significant changes to my system. I use carbon copy cloner periodically as a safe guard to have a bootable version of my system just in case any of the changes that I made that are on my time machine partition come up with problems. In saying that, quite some time ago before I used carbon copy cloner to make the bootable versions, I went into time machine and as if by magic, I had only my latest backup appearing, and couldn't go further, however when manually going into the time machine backup, I had the last 6 backups to pick and choose what I wanted to bring back to my internal HD. This has only happened once, but that was enough for me to keep a routine of cloning as well as time machine backups whenever I make those significant changes. [/QUOTE]
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