Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Backup Question Date: 26 Mar 2015 17:01:02 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <250320151703564234%otto@bogus.address.com> <250320152113005572%star@sky.net> <260320151102565672%nospam@nospam.invalid> <260320151157322221%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Sv3Ce07y9RBns0je8llq0wndi1FaiZUvjFaHL6K0iv3wpy0Fv7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8HO+Y6rESUZAmhDlSHUkLI2P/IQ= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:72122 On 2015-03-26, nospam wrote: > In article , Jolly Roger > 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. > > you missed the point. > > time machine *can* work the way davoud described, but that would be an > intentional decision by the user to exclude stuff from the backup, in > which case the excluded stuff would need to be manually restored. Man, you can be incredibly thick and stubborn. Davoud didn't mention anything about excluding anything and seemed to say that Time Machine simply does not include such things: "If you are relying on TimeMachine you have only your files backed up." Davoud could simply believe that Time Machine doesn't back up apps and settings. Or, he might have simply failed to mention that what he said does *not* apply to the default configuration of Time Machine. But it doesn't matter, because either way, what Király said is true for many, many people who don't bother to exclude applications and settings. Unless you have gone out of your way to do something to prevent Time Machine from backing up apps and settings, 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! -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR