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To: Gottfried who wrote (87451)	1/18/2015 4:19:42 PM
From: greg s	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

1. I back up to a 1 TB external USB3 hard drive. I just plug it in the USB port the night before a scheduled backup and Time Machine does it's thing the next morning. Time Machine automatically handles backup capacity, deleting the oldest backups to make room for the newest if you ever fill up the backup drive (but this hasn't happened with a 1 TB drive). I have the external drive divided into 2 partitions, 3/4 for backup and 1/4 for file archives I don't want to put on the internal 500 GB SSD. Here's the drive I use: Message 29900698 2. I restored "for the heck of it". I have used Windows machines since the mid-80's with Windows 1.0. Post Windows 7 I became fed up with the arrogant attitude displayed by Microsoft in their clear disdain for the user base. I chucked everything Microsoft about a year ago when I got a MacBook Pro Retina. Having endured the band aid Windows back ups for years, I immediately set up Time Machine on OS X when I set up the rest of the platform. A few months later, after some use, I initiated a restore. Just wanted to be sure the system was all it was cracked up to be. It is. Oh yeah, an additional advantage to OS X. When Apple releases a new version, like moving from Mavericks to Yosemite, they simply allow the user to download the new version. Always backward compatible, no additional charge for the new OS. I should have gone Apple a few years ago. This from an Intel retiree steeped in the WinTel legacy.