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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Backup Question
Date: 26 Mar 2015 15:37:04 GMT
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On 2015-03-26, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <cnijd3FjredU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-26, Király <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
>>> Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
>>>> Macs. If you are relying on TimeMachine you have only your files backed
>>>> up. In the event of a HD failure you must reinstall all of your
>>>> software, re-do all of your settings/preferences, and then bring back
>>>> your files.
>>>
>>> This is false. If you have a Time Machine backup, a full restore of 
>>> the system and all your files is entirely possible.
>> 
>> It also doesn't take days. A couple hours and you're back up and
>> running.
>
> it would if someone had to manually reinstall all apps and reconfigure
> everything, as he described.

As Király noted, you don't have to manually reinstall all apps and
reconfigure everything since it's possible to restore apps and their
preferences from Time Machine backups.

> however, i don't know why anyone would go through all that nonsense
> when they could simply restore everything from the backup. that's what
> backups are for. 

You're talking in circles. See Király's post above.

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