Back in Time

After my Mac is back from repair I had the first chance to try Time Machine’s restore feature. 3 hours later for 70 GB of restored data my system is up and running again.

The whole process (putting in the OSX DVD, booting into the installer, selecting Time Machine restore from the menu and selecting the point in time the backup should be used from) is so simple, even your grandma will be able to do it.

After booting you are back at your desktop. There are very little oddities:

Mail.app thinks to see a mail database from Tiger, although it’s not. Looks like Time Machine does not store some index and it has to recreate it. No problem, 2 minutes later it’s fine.

Spotlight reindexes my whole harddrive.

Last but not least: I cannot see my old backups anymore in Time Machine. This in fact can be a proof that Gravis really replaced my mainboard during repair. A look at the external disk shows that he started a new “time line” for “goedel 2″, thinking that it’s a different computer now.

Altogether the whole restore was what you expect from Time Machine: a no brainer.

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