Filed under: Blogging, Leopard

Time Machine is probably the defining feature in Mac OS X Leopard. It provides a nice, clean interface for you to backup and restore your files; but did you know you can additionally restore your computer from the moment Machine backup?

When you insert the Leopard install disk and boot off of it you will be presented with a semi-Mac OS X desktop. In the menu bar, choose Utilities and thereupon “Restore System from Backup…” choose your backup drive, the day you want to

backup from, and thereupon go restore.

James Duncan Davidson has a full guide on his website describing how the process went. He mentions that while it restores all the files, the caches and databases are not restored. that means when you launch programs such as Mail the application will need to recreate the database, which may take some date.

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