Time capsule rules!

I’ve got to admit, Apple’s Time Capsule rules!
Starting off was a little slow. The initial backup was 60Gbytes or so and took
nearly 16 hours to finish. I did this over the wireless connection. It
wasn’t a big deal. I had my laptop plugged in and just left it on overnight.
The transfer rate average to be about 1.2MB/sec (~10Mbit/sec) but as you are
watching, it really drags on
My girlfriend’s MacBook got backed up as well.
So now I’ve got this nice wireless backup going on. Both laptops share the backup drive without interference.
It’s a little of a let down at that point. You start up “Time Machine” and all
you see is exactly what’s on your desktop. After that, it starts to back up
every hour. The interface took a few tries before it really sank in how it
works. I’d expected to drag and drop to get to a backup file since it provides
a “Finder” interface to the backups. Instead, there is a “Restore” button to
bring things back.
Another thing that outsmarted me is that I kept checking for when the next
backup would happen. But it wouldn’t happen. The big “Power off” letters in
the Time Machine menu didn’t click for a long time. Finally, I realized it
wouldn’t do the backup unless I add my laptop plugged in to power. Makes pretty
good sense since you don’t want a lot of disk activity if it’s running on
batteries.
In the event of a my laptop disk failing, I’m supposed to be able to have the
install disk go to the backup and recover the system to any point in time.
Hopefully, I’ll never have to find out if it works but what’s the expression:
“Hope is not a plan”.
You can check out the Time Machine features.