As a couple of my clients are aware, my mac decided to eat it’s own hard drive on Friday of last week – unfortunately this means I don’t have a machine to work on for a week!
Like a fool I’ve never been that great at backing up my files, especially since I started using a mac, since they are bulletproof and never go wrong, ever! Haha Oh dear. Anyway, the nice people at MCC Chester have taken my machine in for repair, unfortunately the data stored on the hard drive isn’t covered by the warranty, so I also have to pay £140 to get the data recovered – which feels wonderful.
As a result I have promised to also spend money on a shiny new toy. Enter another great mac invention, the time capsule. This is basically a glorified hard drive, it’s totally wireless and works with a program included in the apple OS called Time Machine. This clever little tool regularly and automatically backs up your system, that way if your machine’s hard drive fails you can hit a button and it’ll restore it to where it was before. Great eh? If only I’d bought one last week!
We live and learn!
For anyone who’s interested I may just write a tutorial/walkthrough for setting up Time Machine with the Time Capsule. Comment if that would benefit anyone.
You can find out more about the Time Capsule and Time Machine software here: http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
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