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#1 2008-06-21 11:27 pm
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Bootable Time Machine drive
Well, I've set up my external hard drive with time machine, and I've copied all the files over, and all is great and everything except for 1 small problem. Apparently I can't boot from my TM drive, b/c... I don't know why. I could however do this when I used superduper! to back stuff up. IS there any way to make my existing TM drive bootable? IF so that'd be great.
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#2 2008-06-22 2:56 am
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Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
No, I don't think there is any way to boot a time machine backup.
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#3 2008-06-22 4:58 am
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Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
Time Machine drives aren't bootable, for reasons that escape me. SuperDuper on the other hand is designed to make cloned bootable drives, I run SuperDuper myself 
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#4 2008-06-22 9:05 am
Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
With a rather large drive with two partitions you can have the best of both worlds.
The bootable partition can be 10% smaller than your internal.
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#5 2008-06-24 8:18 pm
Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
Well, I think the idea of Time Machine, provided you told it to back up system files, is that you can boot from a CD or DVD system disk and tell time machine to restore from your backup. You would only do this if your internal HD became corrupt or unuseable in some way. I don't know why else you would want to boot from your backup.
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#6 2008-06-24 9:05 pm
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Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
The thing is that with the way TM works how if you did want to boot from it which, of many possible, versions do you want to boot with?
Most recent? Last weeks? Last months?
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#8 2008-06-25 8:55 am
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Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
But, you see, you would end up trying to copy the very system files that you have just booted from, which won't work.
Better to boot from a clean, independent system and then restore from the backup.
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#9 2008-06-25 9:22 pm
Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
user wrote:
But, you see, you would end up trying to copy the very system files that you have just booted from, which won't work.
No! No! No!
The very idea of a clone is just that.
Cloned back-ups work in both directions. In cases when you have any kind of problem, if you have a recent clone, your down time is practically zero.
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#10 2008-06-25 11:12 pm
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Time Machine is not, however, a cloned backup.
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#11 2008-06-25 11:34 pm
Re: Bootable Time Machine drive
Daniel wrote:
Time Machine is not, however, a cloned backup.
Basil earlier wrote:
With a rather large drive with two partitions you can have the best of both worlds.
The bootable partition can be 10% smaller than your internal.
Computers never do what you want them to do; only what you tell them to do.
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