The Select Backup pane appears.Ĭhoose the backup that reflects the point in time to which you want to restore.Ĭlick the radio button next to the name of the destination volume, then click Continue. The Restore Assistant window appears.Ĭhoose “Restore an entire source volume or favorite folder to a previous point in time,” then click Continue. In the Retrospect toolbar, click Restore. From the Media Sets category, click Locate, navigate to the location of the Catalog file, and click OK to add the catalog to the list of available Media Sets. If you copied your Catalog files from backups, you must get Retrospect to recognize them. See “Rebuilding a Media Set,” in Chapter 7, for detailed instructions. (Optional) If your Catalog files are not available, rebuild the necessary Catalog from your backup media. Otherwise, Retrospect will not be able to restore file and folder permissions properly on the target disk. In the Finder on the source Mac, Get Info on the target Mac’s volume you want to restore and ensure that the “Ignore ownership on this volume” option is unchecked. The hard disk of the target Mac will appear on the source Mac’s desktop, as if it were any other external drive. Make sure the source Mac (which needs to have the Retrospect engine installed) is turned on, then connect the FireWire cable from the target Mac to the source Mac. When the FireWire symbol appears and bounces around the screen, you can release the T key the Mac is now in Target Disk Mode and can be connected to any other Mac with a FireWire cable. To start the target Mac (the one to which you wish to restore data) in Target Disk Mode, turn it on and immediately hold down the T key on the keyboard. Working with Reports and the Operations Log.About Mac OS X’s “Recovery HD” partition.What to do if the OS on the new Mac is newer than the backed-up OS.Workflow for macOS El Capitan and Higher.Filtering the contents of a past backup.Locking client features and preferences.Working with Servers and Network Attached Storage.Working with Clients, Servers, and Network Shares.Starting and Stopping the Retrospect Console.Stopping and Starting the Retrospect Engine.Upgrading from Previous Versions of Retrospect.Support for Microsoft Azure for Government.Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Encryption.It’s lasted this long because it does what it promises. TechTool Pro has been around for a couple of decades. There is plenty of information on all the functions of TTP on Micromat’s website. Install the Protection system preference and have it monitor your system in the background. It has TechTool Pro already installed ready to run, and you can even add other programs. Yes, if your OS was installed properly you have the hidden Recovery HD, but Micromat’s eDrive does more if your boot drive goes missing. One of the biggies is the Emergency Startup Disk. (Ditto.) The way I look at it, if I never need it, it’s cheap insurance. (Subset of Murphy’s Law.) The recovery program will be the one you put off buying. Paranoid? Who, me? The one backup you really need is the one you won’t have. I can only speak for myself, but I like to have diagnostic/repair software handy before doing any upgrades/updates. No word yet on when Disk Warrior will be ready. TechTool Pro is already running with developer versions of the coming Mavericks operating system. Cost - $99.99, but if you have a previous version you can update for $39.99. Micromat released TechTool Pro 7 in June of this year. It has been nearly two years since any updates were released for Disk Warrior. While Apple’s Disk Utility can handle some disk corruption problems, I tend to fall back on two commercial apps, Disk Warrior and Micromat’s TechTool Pro.
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