Comments on: Hacking Time Machine http://www.wiseontech.com/hack/hacking-time-machine Hacks, scripts and ideas for the refined geek. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Bates http://www.wiseontech.com/hack/hacking-time-machine/comment-page-1#comment-2983 Jon Bates Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:01:16 +0000 http://software.jonandnic.com/?p=216#comment-2983 Fortunately it was not hard drive failure! I just got my machine back from the apple store and was told that they replaced my hard drive, hard drive cable, and then the entire logic board before they got it working. I did get a 20 GB larger hard drive than I had before, but I with I would have gotten a nice shiny Core 2 duo CPU instead of my Core Duo. Oh well. The good news is that I was able to talk them into giving me my old drive as well for "data recovery". But if it never failed, data recovery is as easy as putting it in a USB enclosure and running migration wizard! When they did reassemble my machine, they didn't press the parts of the case together very well. I might have to press that issue a few times in the coming months. I think I have 5 months of free applecare service left. I wonder if it's like Best Buy's plans where if you get three repairs then they just give you a replacement? Unibody, here I come. :) Fortunately it was not hard drive failure! I just got my machine back from the apple store and was told that they replaced my hard drive, hard drive cable, and then the entire logic board before they got it working. I did get a 20 GB larger hard drive than I had before, but I with I would have gotten a nice shiny Core 2 duo CPU instead of my Core Duo. Oh well. The good news is that I was able to talk them into giving me my old drive as well for “data recovery”. But if it never failed, data recovery is as easy as putting it in a USB enclosure and running migration wizard!

When they did reassemble my machine, they didn’t press the parts of the case together very well. I might have to press that issue a few times in the coming months. I think I have 5 months of free applecare service left. I wonder if it’s like Best Buy’s plans where if you get three repairs then they just give you a replacement? Unibody, here I come. :)

]]> By: Robert http://www.wiseontech.com/hack/hacking-time-machine/comment-page-1#comment-2969 Robert Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:33:56 +0000 http://software.jonandnic.com/?p=216#comment-2969 Try > touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported when you're in the root of the mounted volume. Worth a try. Try
> touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported
when you’re in the root of the mounted volume.

Worth a try.

]]> By: Jonathan Wise http://www.wiseontech.com/hack/hacking-time-machine/comment-page-1#comment-2920 Jonathan Wise Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:23:24 +0000 http://software.jonandnic.com/?p=216#comment-2920 That, among many other reasons, is why I'm not a time machine fan. I use Mozy for documents, a strict duplicate-on-import regimen for photos, and a loose back-up plan for photos. As you know, my movies are not backed up anywhere -- mostly cause I'm constantly filling the biggest drives I can afford with them! That, among many other reasons, is why I’m not a time machine fan. I use Mozy for documents, a strict duplicate-on-import regimen for photos, and a loose back-up plan for photos.
As you know, my movies are not backed up anywhere — mostly cause I’m constantly filling the biggest drives I can afford with them!

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