[OSX-Users] Re: Install iLife on Lion

Philip Boulain prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 16 18:23:18 GMT 2012


On 16/03/2012 09:18, Jules wrote:
> On 15/03/2012 21:54, Philip Boulain wrote:
>> I take it there's no way to get Time Machine to make shadow copies to 
>> the host drive, a la Windows Vista/7?
> Time Machine in Lion will make backups to its own disk to help you out 
> with accidental file deletions/edits, but you do need to enable Time 
> Machine first.

Alas, 'tis the Chilled Leopard. Lion has no Front Row, which would 
render this machine useless for its intended purpose.

> I'll leave you to do the restore from that...

Psh, it's only dd at heart. How else do you make proper backups of UNIX 
machines? :)

Andrew wrote:
> I've been doing this with fresh OS installs for many years now without a hitch.

Cheers!

-- 
Phil



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