I love Time Machine and want to have its babies

[Benbikeman]

How would a TM backup be any different in that regard? If TM backs up corrupted files, the backup will contain the same corruption.

Because I did a Migration not a Restore, so no OSX files are copied. The original argument put forward for CCC was that I could have just booted from it and been up-and-running immediately.

As it turns out, though, it looks like that would have worked - but we wouldn't have known that at the time and thus wouldn't have done it.

Yes, CCC can backup to external or network drives, via wired or wireless connections. However, if the backup is to be bootable, it must be to an external drive plugged directly into the Mac.

Ah, that's a shame. As it's a laptop and I move around a fair bit, anything which needs to be plugged is going to rely on me proactively doing it. The thing I love about the Time Capsule is that backups Just Happen.

 

[GGJstudios]

The thing I love about the Time Capsule is that backups Just Happen.

You can use TC to automatically back up with either TM or CCC. The only thing you can't do with TC is create a bootable backup.

 

[Dark Void]

Time Machine is a nice tool - I have used it a few times to retrieve accidentally deleted files and such. Quick and painless process, I enjoy it as well. Glad to hear that you got all of your data and settings back.

 

[Benbikeman]

You can use TC to automatically back up with either TM or CCC. The only thing you can't do with TC is create a bootable backup.

Right. Could do belt-and-braces, then, and do a CCC incremental backup to an external drive plugged into the Time Capsule. Can never have too many backups.