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re: 10.5: hacking Time Machine
Authored by: mclbruce on Dec 18, '07 06:12:01PM

The beauty of Time Machine is that there are few decisions for the user to make. Once they point it at a hard drive and turn it on, the user is done. Just about the only thing that can be done to mess up Time Machine is to turn off the backup hard drive.

The more choices the users have, the more users will make bad choices. To Apple, that means more support headaches, more customers who lose data and blame it on Apple, and maybe even some class action lawsuits. If they are smart Apple will keep Time Machine as simple as possible.

It's one thing to risk your own data by hacking Time Machine. That's fine with me. But, disclaimer or not, the author is encouraging others to risk their data using his hack by publicizing it here.

I think the only reason for anyone to follow this hint is if they are too cheap to buy a better backup system than the one that comes with Leopard. That's not very good reasoning in my opinion.



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