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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: nedaf7 on Sat, Jun 21 2008 at 12:26PM PDT

In fact, this just happened to me when my MacBook's internal HD crashed. I simply replaced the drive, reinstalled Leopard, applied the system updates, and used Migration Assistant to move the data from my external Time Machine drive. I would like to point out that at first, I forgot that I had excluded the system files from my backup, so I tried to select my Time Machine backup when I installed Leopard. It actually let me do this, and then hung at the screen where it shows your backup recovery progress. I was pretty concerned until I realized what was going on.

10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: nedaf7 on Sat, Jun 21 2008 at 12:27PM PDT

Woops... that last comment was a reply to DylanMuir's.