[LINK] Navitaire was a Virgin, and now Blue as well

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Oct/12, at 5:59 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> Gentle Linkers, when was the last time you tested the process for  
> restoring your own computer from backup, including data,  
> applications and their configuration? And how long did it take?
>
> [My own answers, for the record, are about 18 months, and most of a  
> day, though I am happy that I could access my data more quickly by  
> other means if necessary.]


About 2 years ago I had to take my laptop in to repair the optical  
drive.  Being in another country and not wanting my hard disk to be  
copied, I backed up my laptop on time machine as usual and with a  
small amount of trepidation wiped my hard disk completely.  Took the  
laptop in to get repaired.  Due to a language misunderstanding the  
repair guys carefully installed a system on my hard disk.  "No," I  
said, "I brought it in to get the optical drive repaired."  Oh, OK,  
drive duly repaired (but I should add it still doesn't play DVD movies  
which Apple tells me is a software problem which may be fixed one  
day ;-( ).  I reinstalled my system from time machine.  All worked  
perfectly.

All these fancy tape backup systems are great for companies/ 
departments that can afford them but for home use?  Time machine makes  
it simple.  Although as a home user it is somewhat more problematical  
to do such a procedural test.

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