Re: Backup Question

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Backup Question
Date	2015-03-26 11:57 -0400
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References	(1 earlier) <250320152113005572%star@sky.net> <mf13h2$45h$1@dont-email.me> <cnijd3FjredU1@mid.individual.net> <260320151102565672%nospam@nospam.invalid> <cnind0Fk2liU3@mid.individual.net>

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In article <cnind0Fk2liU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> 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.

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Backup Question Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-03-25 17:03 -0700
  Re: Backup Question Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-03-25 21:13 -0400
    Re: Backup Question Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-03-25 19:15 -0700
      Re: Backup Question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-25 23:07 -0400
    Re: Backup Question M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-03-26 00:07 -0400
      Re: Backup Question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-26 00:10 -0400
    Re: Backup Question me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-03-26 14:02 +0000
      Re: Backup Question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 14:28 +0000
        Re: Backup Question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-26 11:02 -0400
          Re: Backup Question Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-03-26 11:11 -0400
          Re: Backup Question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 15:37 +0000
            Re: Backup Question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-26 11:57 -0400
              Re: Backup Question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 17:01 +0000
                Re: Backup Question nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-26 13:32 -0400
                Re: Backup Question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 17:47 +0000
    Re: Backup Question Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2015-03-26 18:14 -0400
      Re: Backup Question Király <ggrandish@gmail.com> - 2015-03-26 15:57 -0700
        Re: Backup Question Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-03-27 17:16 -0700
          Re: Backup Question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-28 01:51 +0000
            Re: Backup Question Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-03-27 20:23 -0700
    Re: Backup Question Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-28 01:40 +0000
  Re: Backup Question Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-26 04:03 +0000
    Re: Backup Question Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-03-25 21:12 -0700
  Re: Backup Question billy@MIX.COM - 2015-03-26 17:01 +0000

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