Recovering with Time Machine
November 19th 2008
Two things about my computer use over the past decade: 1) I’ve been moving all of our family mementos (mementi?) to digital form, and 2) I’ve become a total klutz about mass storage. A disaster in the making? Almost, but not quite. I’ve spoken earlier about using RAID on my Mac Pro, and now I’m using RAID with my Time Machine storage. I use my drive swapping trick to create backups, and keep the backup off-site.
While performing the drive swap, I managed to smash my working OS X system partition. Thus, I got to experience first-hand the process of recovering my system from my Time Machine backup. Here’s the report.
[UPDATE: Since the original posting, I've found more brittleness in the restored Aperture directory and I've been negotiating a truce between Paragon's NTFS and my NTFS-formatted portable USB drive. Sides are still not quite on speaking terms.]