[muglo] Re: lost iTunes

I have to give time machine a big endorsement.  I lost the hard-drive  
on my nearly spanking new Mac-Book Pro early this year. We were  
returning from vacation on an airplane when it died.  Mostly digital  
did the warranty work in a day or so after I  picked it up I plugged  
the ethernet cable into the airport extreme and several hours later  
the computer was in the same state it was before we left for  
vacation.  I was surprised that even the activation of CS4 stayed  
intact I was prepared to haggle with Adobe to get back one of two  
activations but it wasn't necessary.

In my opinion the best part of Time Machine is how it does it's work  
in the background without the need for user intervention, I know that  
if it was up to me start the back-up process I would be lucky to do it  
once a month rather than the once an hour interval that time machine  
does automatically.


Gerhard
gerhardk@xxxxxxx




On 20-Jun-09, at 9:40 PM, Doug Bale wrote:

> This sounds eerily familiar. Not the loss of iTunes songs  
> particularly, although I've lost a few here and there for  
> unexplained reasons, but more significantly the failure of backup  
> programs to back up all they're supposed to back up. I've never done  
> more than look at Carbon Copy Cloner, which is Doug's backup choice,  
> but in nearly a year's experience of Time Machine and Time Capsule,  
> I've had numerous cases where the one file I needed to retrieve from  
> backup hadn't actually been backed up for a week or more. Luckily,  
> in more than half of those incidents, I've also had a second second  
> backup done intermittently on another drive with SuperDuper! I use  
> that one to make a bootable backup, only when my internal drive has  
> been behaving itself for a while and seems relatively trouble-free.  
> As a result, it's not always as up to date as Time Capsule  
> supposedly is, sometimes a couple of weeks or more elapsing before I  
> feel confident enough to run SuperDuper!
> again - but I've never yet gone to it expecting a given backup to be  
> there and been disappointed to find it wasn't.
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