Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.
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OmgItsTheSmartGuy
Comment • over 9 years ago • 3 users agree • 0 replies
Time Machine's interface is incredibly, unnecessarily flashy. I like it. It's way better than boring old system restore on Windows.
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• Negative comment • almost 3 years ago • 3 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
I appreciate the simplicity in design, however this can also be a con working against it as well. I lost data stored by Time Machine due to what I feel to be a design flaw. The software will make backups regularly and consistently. However it will not verify the content of the backups it makes except for once every 6 months. That is just how it's been programmed to function. Make the backups, but don't verify the backups except for once every 6 months. What this means is that there is a small window of opportunity that a file you expect is there, actually did not get stored / copied over properly. I had a file that was backed up roughly 1 month after the previous 6 month verification had been done. It so happened that the file was empty. Time Machine had made the file placeholder but not completed transferring it over, leaving an empty placeholder behind -- a useless file. That was the last time I decided to trust time machine.
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• Positive comment • over 2 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
Worked like a charm since the past 8 years I have used a mac.
Never failed!
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• Positive comment • over 1 year ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
Impossible to manage the backup scheduling (v.g. only during the night to avoid resources use during work time)
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Candy12
Comment • about 11 years ago • 0 users agree and 3 don't • 0 replies
Genie Timeline is a time machine for Windows it's an alternative to Time Machine for Mac I've been using it for a couple of months now and it works good.
Time Machine's interface is incredibly, unnecessarily flashy. I like it. It's way better than boring old system restore on Windows.
I appreciate the simplicity in design, however this can also be a con working against it as well. I lost data stored by Time Machine due to what I feel to be a design flaw. The software will make backups regularly and consistently. However it will not verify the content of the backups it makes except for once every 6 months. That is just how it's been programmed to function. Make the backups, but don't verify the backups except for once every 6 months. What this means is that there is a small window of opportunity that a file you expect is there, actually did not get stored / copied over properly. I had a file that was backed up roughly 1 month after the previous 6 month verification had been done. It so happened that the file was empty. Time Machine had made the file placeholder but not completed transferring it over, leaving an empty placeholder behind -- a useless file. That was the last time I decided to trust time machine.
Worked like a charm since the past 8 years I have used a mac.
Never failed!
Impossible to manage the backup scheduling (v.g. only during the night to avoid resources use during work time)
Genie Timeline is a time machine for Windows it's an alternative to Time Machine for Mac
I've been using it for a couple of months now and it works good.