{"id":13383,"date":"2012-02-29T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:30:36","slug":"time-machine-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13383-time-machine-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bounce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1509\" title=\"bounce\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bounce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a>Apple released an awesome backup feature called Time Machine back in 2007 when OS X 10.5 Leopard was introduced. Why? Essentially Apple spent the decade building awesome computers in the digital life concept of music, photos, and movies. Apple likely realized that backup solutions, aside from cloning the entire computer, were a bit heavy and hard(ish) to implement by general users. With Time Machine, Apple essentially made a backup solution that\u2019s easy-to-use, works in the background, and is essentially \u201cplug in and forget about it\u201d. \u201cBackup made easy,\u201d if you will.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing thing Time Machine does is that it creates incremental backups, allowing you to step back in time to a previous version of a file. This feature has saved my butt more than a few times when I\u2019ve accidentally overwritten a master Photoshop file, or whenever an important file goes missing. I can just go into to Time Machine and retrieve it from the past.<\/p>\n<p>Time Machine also does a massively valuable trick&#8230; it\u2019ll let you restore your Mac to a previous state in the OS. Yup, you can make your Mac go back in time as a whole as well!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why would you need to do this? Well I needed it recently because the latest Apple Software update caused my 2010 MacBook Pro at home to not wake from sleep correctly. I tried a ton of fixes, such as making sure nothing else was connected, to reinstalling the update to no avail. If the Mac was asleep longer than a few minutes, it wouldn\u2019t wake up.<\/p>\n<p>What bugged me more was that the Mac was 100% perfect before the update. So I plugged my Time Machine drive in, and booted Lion into recovery mode by holding down the \u201coption\u201d key during a restart. I selected the recovery disk that comes up, and with the Time Machine drive connected, I was asked what version I wanted to take my Mac back to. The convenient little screen showed dates and OS versions.<\/p>\n<p>(Tip, if you\u2019re using a previous version of Mac OS X, you can boot from the install DVD to get \u201crestore from Time Machine\u201d options.)<\/p>\n<p>Since my issue was with OS X 10.7.3, I stepped back to the version prior to that. Roughly two hours later, I had a perfect working Mac back again. It woke up from sleep with external drives and a monitor connected without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p>Since Time Machine came out, I\u2019ve pretty much viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/\">an external drive<\/a> dedicated to Time Machine as a <strong>must have<\/strong> for every Mac I own. Amazingly though, I still come across people who are still doing slow manual backups to optical disks or other media, or &#8211; worse yet &#8211;\u00a0<em>don\u2019t have a back-up at all!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time Machine supplies so much usefulness beyond just backing up data, while at the same time being relatively light by working in the background, it\u2019s a recommendation I give to anyone who hasn\u2019t yet started backing up their precious data. If you\u2019re the tech evangelist among your group of friends, family, or co-workers, you may want to reach out and extoll the virtues of a good Time Machine backup.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet started backing up your Mac, I can\u2019t recommend this enough&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/\">get a good external drive<\/a> and use Time Machine. It has just been so helpful with \u201cset it and forget it\u201d peace of mind for me which, being moderately lazy at home computing, I love that it doesn\u2019t add much overhead in maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Backing up data has never been easier.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use Time Machine or have another backup plan? Let us know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released an awesome backup feature called Time Machine back in 2007 when OS X 10.5 Leopard was introduced. Why? 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