A Few Things To Know About Using Time Machine.
By now you’ve heard of Mac OS X Leopard and the gaudy backup utility included therein—Time Machine.
Apple’s backup plan includes simplicity and convenience in place of, uh, well, simplicity and convenience.
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iDiot said:
As other have noted, the restore process is not quite so long winded! Sure you have to find the Leopard install DVD put once you have it you select the option of “Restore system from Time Machine backup” (maybe not exact wording). You then choose where the backup is (your external disk) and where it’s going (your internal disk).
Next, pick the time machine backup date / time that you wish to restore from the list and leave it going for a couple of hours.
It’s slow but it’s as easy as that. I did it the other day, partly thanks to some badly behaving HP printer drivers and partly because I wanted to know Time Machine was capable of disaster recovery.
Not withstanding that if the internal HDD has actually died then of course, if it’s an Apple all-in-one affair such as the iMac then it’ll have to go back to Apple for repair first, unless your warranty has expired and you don’t mind digging inside yourself.