Just a very quick post tonight, because I’ve got home from a long day at work to find that my Mac won’t boot up. After trying a few fixes to do with file permissions and so on, I still couldn’t get the thing to work.
Then I remembered that, since I upgraded to Leopard the other day, I have backups of the file system on an external drive. So I booted up from the Leopard disc (hold C down while switching a mac on to boot from the CD), and used Time Machine to restore the system from a backup made yesterday afternoon.
And here I am, back up and running again :) Don’t know if I’d done something wrong, but I’m very happy that I’d started backing things up just before the computer died. And I’m also very impressed with Time Machine – it backs-up automatically and with the minimum of fuss, and the restore was pretty easy to do too. So, thank-you Apple, for building in such an easy backup system. And let this be a reminder to anyone reading this… back your system up, ‘cos even Macs can go belly-up with no warning.
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