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Talarspeed

macrumors member
Original poster
Dec 12, 2009
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I finally get to open my first iMac in a few days and the excitement is killing me. So I decided to sign up for one of the workshops at the local Apple store.

The girl told the group that Time Machine would make a perfect mirrored image of the hard drive in case of catastrophic failure. I asked her if this image was a boot-able clone and she said yes.

From reading posts here I gathered that it didn't do this, but you needed SuperDuper or Carbon Copy.

Was she wrong?
 

Eraserhead

macrumors G4
Nov 3, 2005
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She's wrong. Time Machine does backup your data and you can restore from it onto a new machine - however it isn't bootable.
 

mattyb240

macrumors 6502a
May 11, 2008
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Perhaps she got confused with booting from the OSX Disk and then restoring from time machine from there.
 

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
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Its not a cloned image, like how Carbon Copy Clones a drive but rather the data is backed up hourly. The results are nearly the same but its not a cloned image.
 
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