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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1702092">I agree with all that's been said, and I'll chip in that I have the firewall on. There is a firewall in my router, but the software firewall is on because occasionally I take the MBP on the road and connect to public networks, so having the FW defaulted ON means I don't have to remember to turn it on when I am on the road. The two work well together, so it seems to me to make sense not to have to remember one more thing when go on the road.One other thing is that TM backups are NOT bootable, so if your system does get impacted and you need to wipe it out and start over from the backups, you may want to create a bootable USB stick, or a bootable external drive. That way you can boot from that, restore the TM backup and be back in the water pretty quickly. Even faster if the bootable external is a full clone of the internal drive, because then you just boot from it and clone it back to the internal drive and you are fully restored. I do both TM and clone backups daily. I use Carbon Copy Cloner, but SuperDuper! will do the same thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1702092"] I agree with all that's been said, and I'll chip in that I have the firewall on. There is a firewall in my router, but the software firewall is on because occasionally I take the MBP on the road and connect to public networks, so having the FW defaulted ON means I don't have to remember to turn it on when I am on the road. The two work well together, so it seems to me to make sense not to have to remember one more thing when go on the road. One other thing is that TM backups are NOT bootable, so if your system does get impacted and you need to wipe it out and start over from the backups, you may want to create a bootable USB stick, or a bootable external drive. That way you can boot from that, restore the TM backup and be back in the water pretty quickly. Even faster if the bootable external is a full clone of the internal drive, because then you just boot from it and clone it back to the internal drive and you are fully restored. I do both TM and clone backups daily. I use Carbon Copy Cloner, but SuperDuper! will do the same thing. [/QUOTE]

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