[OSX-Users] Re: Install iLife on Lion

[Jules]

On 16 Mar 2012, at 06:23 PM, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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? :)

A backup is only any use if you can easily restore files from it. Write-only backups are of little use.


Jules

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