Mac’s have a thing called the “time machine”. It is supposed to be a wonderful backup system. Well, I have had nothing but BAD luck with any backup system except me personally shipping my personally selected files off to a floppy, cd, dvd, thumb drive, external drive, whatever. No microsoft based “system recovery”, ghosting scheme, backup software ever saved my butt. For a couple of years – I had an automatic cloud based backup system. And, at the very same time as my HP Vista Whore Machine melted the motherboard – taking the disk with it – my cloud based backup system had a massive server failure – and nothing could be retrieved. I was still backing up to dvd and/or the external drive – so, I didn’t lose very much.
Son-in-law encouraged me to give The Time Machine a try. So, I dusted off the external drive that I consider the most trust worthy and turned it into my Time Machine. Sooner or later, I’ll try to get some sort of wireless Time Machine going. Using my existing parts. One can buy a cute little Apple box for $499 that will do the job. But, where is the fun in that?
I am trying to be modern. I started using WordPress – no long doing a roll your own website. Now, I am trying out Time Machine and the whole Mac-thing. Progress.
Chicken for dinner tonight. A chubby chicken is in the oven.