Time Machine saved my butt today

[smokeyrabbit]

I do a daily manual TM backup at home when my MacBook is connected via ethernet to my 2TB TM. Today I foolishly erased my entire user directory trying to free up space by deleting old unused items.

Since my last TM backup was mere minutes before this event, I booted from my USB stick containing the 10.8 ML installer and restored from the TM backup. Over ethernet it only took about an hour and a half to restore the 165 GB on my MacBook's SSD.

Lesson Learned: If you're going to screw around in Terminal make sure you have a working backup!

 

[onirocdarb]

I was trying to make a bootable USB in bootcamp and accidentally clicked on my internal.... $100 external = $100 well spent

 

[Morod]

Lesson Learned: If you're going to screw around in Terminal make sure you have a working backup!

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This! TM makes it so easy to do backups, and Terminal is such a powerful tool, that this quote should be included in every Mac.
Glad it worked out for you.