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Two Hard Drive Questions and One Ram Question
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According to our own site here there's a few things a bit off in this thread. Or in that one.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/620545/
Huh? WTH? If it doesn't back up the OS? Isn't that where all the time consuming info-bit, registrations, and etc. (even critical data) are kept?
Etc. I'm pretty sure the computer scientists that were discussing this in the apple.com forums were right and TM is not a "back-up" solution - just like they said. <shrug> again I haven't used it myself. Are the people saying stuff here in this thread talking from the experience of having restored "everything" from a TM drive or only assuming? I normally wouldn't question others like this but Back-Ups are pretty important I think and can cost folks a lot of expense and grief if they're operating on wrong information.
I'm not going to research it myself because I already made up /my/ mind about using it but I suggest if you are going to depend on TM for critical data BU/Recovery then it would behoove you to investigate thoroughly.
EDIT: In the "About Time Machine" in the Apple Native Help it says:
Confusing aint it!?!
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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/620545/
- "apple initially recommended an external drive twice as big as your internal."
- I have a 500GB iMac there is 363.01GB available which means that 136.99GB have been used.
After Time Machines first back up there was 383.11GB left which means that Time Machine only backed up 82.65GB of stuff. I put no limitations...
This leads me to believe that TM probably does not back up the OS which makes sense.
Huh? WTH? If it doesn't back up the OS? Isn't that where all the time consuming info-bit, registrations, and etc. (even critical data) are kept?
Etc. I'm pretty sure the computer scientists that were discussing this in the apple.com forums were right and TM is not a "back-up" solution - just like they said. <shrug> again I haven't used it myself. Are the people saying stuff here in this thread talking from the experience of having restored "everything" from a TM drive or only assuming? I normally wouldn't question others like this but Back-Ups are pretty important I think and can cost folks a lot of expense and grief if they're operating on wrong information.
I'm not going to research it myself because I already made up /my/ mind about using it but I suggest if you are going to depend on TM for critical data BU/Recovery then it would behoove you to investigate thoroughly.
EDIT: In the "About Time Machine" in the Apple Native Help it says:
Initially, Time Machine makes a complete backup, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, documents—everything you keep on your computer, except for a few temporary files (such as web browser caches) that are recreated if they are needed after a restore.
Confusing aint it!?!
.