Time Machine

[mokwi8]

I am about to install something which I am unsure whether it will damage my system. If it does, can I just use Time Machine to revert back to my old system? (Similar to System Restore on Windows)
Thank You

 

[spinnerlys]

Time Machine does not doe such a thing, but you can use CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to make a clone of your working setup, and if something goes haywire after an installation of a new application or whatever else you did to bring it down, you can clone the backed-up clone back.

 

[mokwi8]

How would I go about restoring my system properly?

 

[spinnerlys]

How would I go about restoring my system properly?

You boot from the cloned backup via holding down the OPTION key during startup and selecting the clone.
Once the cloned Mac OS X has fully loaded, start Disk Utility (Spotlight will find it), erase the volume/partition with the defunct Mac OS X installation.

Then open CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper (whichever application you took in the first place) and choose the newly formatted (erased) partition/volume as target and clone the working backup back to it.

 

[mokwi8]

You boot from the cloned backup via holding down the OPTION key during startup and selecting the clone.
Once the cloned Mac OS X has fully loaded, start Disk Utility (Spotlight will find it), erase the volume/partition with the defunct Mac OS X installation.

Then open CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper (whichever application you took in the first place) and choose the newly formatted (erased) partition/volume as target and clone the working backup back to it.

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it