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10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: carbon60 on Tue, Jun 17 2008 at 12:10PM PDT

I suggest that repartitioning the drive your backups are on before doing a restore is absolute insanity.

10.5: Use Time Machine to create a bootable backup
Authored by: windrag on Tue, Jun 17 2008 at 1:34PM PDT

Except for the fact that Time Machine will keep making backups until the partition its assigned to fills up. At that point, if you you try to repartition, you'll be overwriting data.

Or am I missing something. I think this is a great hint.

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