<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 11:45, Jules wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<span><div><div>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
Lion will continue to do Time Machine backups to spare space on your
laptop's own hard disk while it's away from its Time Capsule.
Obviously this is no protection against disk failure, but it does
provide protection against accidental file deletion or corruption.<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Most of the time, yes, it will. Sometimes, this non-GUI option turns itself off and you don't get local snapshotting (such as on my Air - no idea why). To find out if you've got it enabled, open a Terminal and run:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>tmutil snapshot</div><div><br></div><div>If that errors out, it's disabled and you can run:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>sudo tmutil enablelocal</div><div><br></div><div>to switch it back on.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div>