Mac Os X Timemachine

[sjaak327]

The point is that, even though there was a corrupt file, TM should just restore everything (it was on it's way and failed at 91%) and then I could boot from the hard drive and run Leopard. Now I had to re-installl Leopard and all apps again (when you do a TM restore, your harddrive is of course formatted first.)

Therefore while TM works fine for individual files, it did not work full proof as a system restore option. It did work perfectly the first time, it did fail the second time.

I guess it would be more correct to say that TM doesn't protect you from corrupt files.

I can very well imagine how the decision to make TM abort on corrupt files was made:

"What if the corrupt file is a system file?"

"What if it's a file where you won't know the system is malfunctioning but then later on everything could get hosed"

"Who makes that decision?"

"How can this feature pass QA?"

A huge customer service and QA nightmare and/or class action lawsuits are approaching quickly once you decide to restore a corrupt file. It can't be done. What they could do is provide some sort of CRC error-correction which might or might not work in any given situation. With CRC you would immediately know whether or not it can work. Whereas, if you decide to skip a corrupt file, the system is in an unknown state and anything might happen.

And this being Apple, it would be a safe bet to assume that a class action lawsuit would follow at some later stage.

I fail to see the logic here, we are talking about a tif file, hardly a file that prevents me from running the OS. Apple shouldn't make these choices, the paying customers do. If it is a system file, then I'm f@cked anyway, if it is a user file (as it was in my case) then I have a working OS again.

The system is hosed anyway, like I said typically Apple, glad to see that at Microsoft there are more clever and practical people, one reason that you can actually trust system restore, it never failed on me on many occasions. (and no that is not a sign of a bad os, I just like to expiriment.)

[nikster]

I fail to see the logic here, we are talking about a tif file, hardly a file that prevents me from running the OS. Apple shouldn't make these choices, the paying customers do. If it is a system file, then I'm f@cked anyway, if it is a user file (as it was in my case) then I have a working OS again.

The system is hosed anyway, like I said typically Apple, glad to see that at Microsoft there are more clever and practical people, one reason that you can actually trust system restore, it never failed on me on many occasions. (and no that is not a sign of a bad os, I just like to expiriment.)

LOL. Surely you are joking.

[nikster]

You can create a bootable Time Machine drive easily by doing the following:

Re-Format your Time Machine Drive

Open Disk Utility (It's in your Applications/Utilities folder)

Click the Restore Tab

Select your Leopard Install DVD as the Source

Select your freshly-formatted Time Machine drive as the Destination

Click Restore

Cool stuff, I didn't know that! I might just do it, seems like it would be much more useful to have a one-stop rescue HD for when things go wrong.

[RAZZELL]

The one band thing (according to a friend) is that TM is that files are not searchable by name?

Is this true?

RAZZ

[steffi]

Why would that be? You have the Finder in Time Machine and you can do searches with it.

The one band thing (according to a friend) is that TM is that files are not searchable by name?

Is this true?

RAZZ

[nikster]

The one band thing (according to a friend) is that TM is that files are not searchable by name?

Is this true?

No.