Legal Commentary

Mac Backups - Simple, but not so reliable

By Ernest Svenson

Apple's latest operating system includes a program called Time Machine, which is supposed to make backups simple. All you have to do is hook up an external drive and and Time Machine will start making hourly backups.  If you accidentally delete a file and empty the trash, no problem.  Just open up Time Machine and 'go back in time' to find the file before you destroyed it.

Time Machine is a great idea because most people find backing up too hard, and that's why they don't do it.  Apple makes it so easy that there really isn't much to think about.  One thing many people did think about was whether it would really work in an extreme emergency, such has having to restore all the data on a computer hard drive.

Which brings me to main story.

Full post as published by Ernie the Attorney on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).