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naquaada · 07-21-2008, 12:17 PM

@ azathot: Here are the differences between my system and Time Machine.

- You can't boot from a Time machine backup, but you can boot from the Recovery partition.
- Time machine needs another harddrive, mine only one. For my personal system I would need a Time Machine backup drive of 1,42 TB in size.
- If your system crashes and your boot partition is damaged, you need the installation DVD, you don't need this on my system. To crash my system, two partitions and the bootmanager must be damaged - or the complete harddrive, but this also could happen on a Time Machine backup.
- You can backup the created disk images on a DVD, this isn't possible with Time Machine. It would be even possible to store very large backups if you use splitted .rar archives or a split/joinin program like Macchaca.
- Time Machine backups all the time, that's kind of nerving. The last backup I'm creating is before installing large programs, after this I don't have to.
- It is still not sure if Time Machine works 100% on AMD. My system is definetively working with AMD OS X because no special programs are needed.
- There are not much Terminal commands, I also have created a file which contains the most used commads, so just copy/paste is needed. I have to translate the file and attach it then. By the way, an OSx86 user should know a little bit how to use the Terminal.

The main idea of my system is to have a standard system with an immediate possibility for recovery combined with fast available backups which can be stored on DVD.