Time Machine
In all the years I’ve been using computers for day to day work [since around 97-98 when I started uni] I’ve never had to do a full backup of a system after a catastrophic failure. By catastrophic I mean water in my MacBook…
So I was a little worried that I’d lost everything! My laptop has all my portfolio of work on which essential for me gaining employment and also all my Part 3 work, not to mention all my music and photos.
Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.5 I’ve been using a program called Time Machine to back up which comes as part of OS X on the Mac. I’d never had to test how good it is and kind of hoped that it would just work when I needed it to. I’ve never needed to recover an individual file either as I’m usually careful about what I delete.
My new MacBook arrived from Amazon yesterday and as soon as I got it home I rebooted from the CD and selected restore from Time Machine Backup. An hour or so later my laptop was exactly as it was the day before the flood! Needless to say I am very impressed!
