Creative use of Apples Time Machine
Posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 in Productivity
I Just had an Apple
moment! A moment where you truly feel the amount of thought that
goes into creating all the cool stuff ((Yes, I know I sound like an
Apple [intlink id="238" type="post"]fan boy[/intlink], so deduct
10% of my enthusiasm for everything I say about Apple)) at Apple. I
was just about to install the latest beta of the iPhone 3.0 SDK,
when I ran out of disk space. What to do ? - I could get up from
the couch and find an external hard disk, but that one was also
stuffed... I think... Well I didn't bother to check, instead I
chose a random ((Well not completely random, I chose a folder that
I knew hadn't changed in the last couple of days - i.e. I knew it
was backed up properly!)) folder in my home directory that weighed
in at just under 3 GiB. I then went on to install the SDK. After
the installation I deleted the SDK disk image, and then "Entered
the Time Machine" and restored the folder. Quite useful! - So if I
one day need a lot of storage, and I am far from home, I'll just
delete ((Please don't delete just any random folder, pick one you
know hasn't changed since the last time Time Machine backed up your
hard disk)) my iTunes music folder and restore it when I get home.