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You don't have to install from scratch with a decent backup. (A complete Time Machine restore of my laptop over Firewire takes 2-3 hours. I sleep better at nig

by cstuder 15y ago

You don't have to install from scratch with a decent backup. (A complete Time Machine restore of my laptop over Firewire takes 2-3 hours. I sleep better at night, knowing this.)

mechanical_fish 15y ago
Yes. Use SuperDuper to clone occasionally to a laptop-sized HD and you can probably get the restore time down to "how long will it take me to open up the machine and slide in this backup HD". Such a backup might not be especially fresh, but once it's up you can sync over files from a fresher, automated backup.
- aik 15y ago
  Do you know a good one for Windows?
  - jerhewet 15y ago
    Acronis TrueImage (http://www.acronis.com/trueimage http://www.acronis.com/trueimage). Both backups and restores are amazingly fast -- in my case, 8 to 10 minutes for just under 60GB.