Comments on: MacBook disaster recovery

By: serviced offices

serviced offices — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:04:23 +0000

I have this really sophisticated backup system – it consists of a USB memory stick which cost around £5 and a batch job that dumps all my important folders to the stick overnight. I rotate the sticks every couple of days – sometimes simplicity is best!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:10:21 +0000

I’ve used Time Machine before. Actually, I’ve had my life saved by Time machine before. lol

By: Rafe

Rafe — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:49:34 +0000

The fact that the first restore really scared me, plus I like the idea of having a bootable backup.

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:27:37 +0000

I currently use Time Machine on my work and personal Macs, and have yet to 'battle test' them for a full backup. Yet everything I read from you and others points to recommending Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner, which is a shame, because what's the use of Time Machine (other than for individual file recovery)?

Thanks for your thoughts here. I'm going to to back to SD or CCC in addition to TM.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:13:35 +0000

I don’t use a Mac, but my buddy who does swears by the (free) “Applejack” tool for fixing up permissions and other system bits:

http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

He says that OnyX is a must-have too:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html

Me, I still use Fedora…