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Re: TM Backup

From RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: TM Backup
Date 2020-08-06 08:58 +0000
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On 6 Aug 2020 at 09:37:13 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 6 Aug 2020 at 00:17:20 BST, "Richard Tobin" <Richard Tobin> wrote:
> 
>> In article <hp07mfF2st3U1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh  <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>> It is after all only a backup, and disposable as long as it's
>>> recreated tout suite.
>> 
>> That's an exaggeration.  I have used backups to recover files that had
>> been inadvertently lost months earlier (and that of course is why Time
>> Machine doesn't just keep the latest backup).
> 
> I, too, have had my bacon saved this way on more than one occasion.
> 
> TM is dead easy to set up and use (I use an external drive, powered by the
> USB
> connection) and can be a very present help in time of trouble. And, unless
> you
> actually want to access it, it just sits out of sight and Does Its Thing.

Except when it doesn't ;-)

As mentioned in this thread, 2 versions of TM at separate physical locations
makes a great deal of sense. 3 perhaps more so - but that's a bit much for me
to organise.

-- 
Cheers, Rob

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TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-02 19:17 +0000
  Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-02 15:34 -0400
    Re: TM Backup David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-03 00:03 +0100
      Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-02 19:10 -0400
    Re: TM Backup nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2020-08-02 20:09 -0600
      Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-02 22:05 -0700
      Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-03 15:30 -0400
  Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 10:31 +0000
    Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 13:54 +0000
      Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 14:09 +0000
        Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 18:57 +0000
          Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 19:27 +0000
            Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 20:13 +0000
              Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-03 16:22 -0400
              Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 21:03 +0000
                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-04 08:53 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-04 10:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Fred <fredbare@[127.0.0.1]> - 2020-08-04 14:30 +0100
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-04 17:33 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-04 13:44 -0400
                Re: TM Backup Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-08-04 19:43 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-04 16:14 -0400
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-04 23:02 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-04 23:05 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-05 14:32 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 08:13 -0400
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-05 14:32 +0000
                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-05 09:05 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-05 10:54 +0000
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 14:14 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 10:21 -0400
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 14:31 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 10:34 -0400
                Re: TM Backup black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) - 2020-08-05 16:47 +0100
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-05 17:13 +0000
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 21:04 +0000
                Re: TM Backup richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-08-05 23:17 +0000
                Re: TM Backup John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-08-06 08:37 +0000
                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-06 08:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 09:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2020-08-06 12:30 +0100

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