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An idle trawl through Time Machine tech.

Avatar Euan Williams
Time Machine is wonderful software, but how it works can be mysterious, and how to deal with it in a serious crisis could be daunting. As summer fades into cooler evenings here are some references to ease the path to enlightenment. Someone else out there knows the answers to your questions.

> http://www.macworld.com/article/132118/2008/02/timemachine1.html <
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/macintosh/discuss/72157603284372963/ <.


In some depth (read right through):

> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14 < and
> http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Works.html <

which explain Unix hard links, symbolic links, soft links and why these aren't aliases. Note the warning at the bottom of the latter URL.


Apart from Apple's own, revamped, discussion pages,
> http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&product=&q=time%20machine <

there is some Q & A stuff is at superuser.com (see the "related" column),
> http://superuser.com/questions/33503/are-time-machine-backups-incremental-and-is-time-machine-any-better-on-snow-leop <

Enjoy!

Re: An idle trawl through Time Machine tech.

Avatar Mick Burrell
Links to save copy & paste:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/macintosh/discuss/72157603284372963/

http://www.macworld.com/article/132118/2008/02/timemachine1.html

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14

http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Works.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&product=&q=time%20machine

http://superuser.com/questions/33503/are-time-machine-backups-incremental-and-is-time-machine-any-better-on-snow-leop

Re: An idle trawl through Time Machine tech.

Avatar Euan Williams
David Moon: we had a discussion about this during the last Dorchester meeting, and I promised to dig up these pages in the Discussions "compost heap".

Hope it makes your tomatoes grow well ho hum!

Re: An idle trawl through Time Machine tech.

Avatar Douglas Cheney
Here is an interesting article on Time Machine
http://www.macworld.com/article/157411/2011/02/timemachinerestore.html?lsrc=top_1

Re: An idle trawl through Time Machine tech.

Avatar Eric Jervis
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