On the Pleasure of TimeMachine
Just now I realized that I hadn't plugged in my external FireWire drive, which is my TimeMachine drive, to my laptop yet this morning, so I plugged it in and in a few seconds it started cranking on the backup and everything was happy. And this lead me to realize that the upgrade for 10.5 was really quite marvelous. I have used TimeMachine probably less than a dozen times, but each time it's saved my bacon in a way that I didn't used to have. I've been able to create new machines from old dead ones... I've gotten back single files, and I've reached a level of relaxation with regards to the data on my laptop that I simply never used to have.
I've tried several programs, and ended up rolling my own eventually, but I didn't really keep up with it properly, and so I always had some exposure to loss. Now - it's only an hour. That's pretty impressive. It's really taken my data security to a new level. Thanks, Apple. Well done.