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Re: Time Machine anomaly

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In article <barmar-EF405F.10284112022015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <1lzq9m8.dlnueq1oewdtcN%pfjames2000@googlemail.com>,
>  pfjames2000@googlemail.com (Peter James) wrote:
> >
> > To recap.  The file structure of my iMac became corrupted and I had to
> > delete the contents of the hard disk using disk utilities and restore
> > from Time Machine.  Time Machine is set to backup every hour and every
> > day.
> > 
> > When I came to restore from Time Machine I found to my horror that the
> > last backup I could restore was the 28th of Ocotber 2102.  Thus I lost
> > two and a half years backups.  I was mortified.
> 
> That's a *real* time machine -- it lets you go almost a century into the 
> future!

That would be great ... get a "last minute" job that needs to be done
urgently (and then usually sits on someone else's desk for days) ...
simply load up Time Machine, scroll forward and retrieve the finished
files from the future. Hopefully Apple is already working on this!  ;-)

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Time Machine anomaly pfjames2000@googlemail.com (Peter James) - 2015-02-12 11:22 +0000
  Re: Time Machine anomaly Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-02-12 10:28 -0500
    Re: Time Machine anomaly Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-02-13 09:20 +1300
  Re: Time Machine anomaly Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2015-02-12 20:54 +0000
  Re: Time Machine anomaly {$PW$}@womar.co.uk (Paul Womar) - 2015-02-12 22:10 +0000
  Re: Time Machine anomaly "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-02-13 02:23 +0000
  Re: Time Machine anomaly David Arnstein <arnstein+usenet@pobox.com> - 2015-03-04 00:09 +0000

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