Correction ... the 13" Macbook I referred to is an MBP also I think ... anyway, the one in the aluminium case. It's probably irrelevant anyway.
On 18/07/2010, at 2:06 PM, Jim D wrote: > I'm a newbie on Mac, 13" MBP, from Linux for a decade. Still have all my > other machines on Linux (Mint). When I got my MBP I looked at Time Capsule > and read the reports on the Apple site. > > Horror!! > > Hundreds of complaints. Seemed not to last past 2 years at most, most from a > fried power supply, a frying that also knackered the hard too!? Ugh... > > So I looked elsewhere and got the WD My Book World Edition II, 2TB, $400, and > it seems, thus far quite satisfactory, using time machine software to talk to > it. > > Cheers, > > Jim > > > On 18 July 2010 17:24, Steven Knowles <emai...@knowles.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni > > I was using a 17" MacBook Pro as my primary machine, which was backed up to a > Time Capsule. > > Some evidence of hard disk failure started to appear in the MBP, which > ultimately led to me taking it in for inspection. The hard disk was replaced. > > I had to leave the MBP to await replacement disk, and so in the meantime > restored the backed up file to a more recent model 13" MacBook. Both MBP and > MB running latest versions of SL mind you. > > Once the MBP was ready, I stopped using the MB, but restored the latest > backup from Time Capsule to the MBP. > > So I guess the problem I'm experiencing with corrupt files could be a result > of restoring a backed up file to MB and then back to MBP, if as you say > problems can occur when restoring files to a different kind of Mac (which if > so is a big problem ... if a hard drive crashes, it is most likely that a > user will be restoring to a different kind of Mac simply due to the passing > of time and model updates), or perhaps corruption was occurring during the > period in which I was experiencing signs of a failing hard disk on the MBP, > and so as files became corrupt they too were backed up to the TC. No way of > telling, and with 735,000+ files on the hard disk, impractical for me to > check files one by one for corruption. > > I suppose I could restore my oldest backup on the Time Capsule to a spare > hard disk, to maximise my chances of recovering files found to be corrupt > along the way, but the only spare hard disk I have is in another MacBook, and > that seems like a waste of a MacBook. > > I suppose the world still turned before people became so paranoid about > having their life backed up. > > Cheers, Steven > > -- > Jim Duffield > 0405583977 > Skype: oldozsapper > > Australian two party system: "In any event...the real need for reform is not > so much in the institutions of government as in the political parties. They > have become narrowly based, factionalised, undemocratic oligarchies, apt to > be controlled by too few people, closed to public view but open to > manipulation and outright corruption. Reforming them would make the > institutions of government work better without changing those institutions, > but without reforming them the institutions cannot work very much better than > they do at present." - Harry Evans, Clerk to the Senate in 'The Australian' > 10 March 1997. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
