Apple Time Machine Not Filling Disk

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Michael Z. - Noiseconformist wrote:

> On Fri, February 29, 2008 4:49 pm, Gert van Santen wrote:
>> Jay Vaughan schreef:
>>>> I have started to wonder: how do you restore the drive in case of a
>>>> complete failure of the source drive? is there a "restore me"  
>>>> button
>>>> somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>> you re-install Leopard again, then open the TimeMachine drive and
>>> copy your files back ..
>>
>> That sounds pretty lame to me. I thought
>> it was possible to reinstall your drive
>> with one quick "restore"...
>
> I agree!
> Given that many people do customisations on their system, what would
> happen to renamed files, folders, modified links, deleted apps etc.?
>
> Just copying back is not enough, IMO. To much of a mess.

from the apple website, btw when you google time machine apple is the  
first link, sorry H.G :)

Migration with style.
To make setting up a new Mac even simpler, Time Machine shares its  
data with other Mac utilities. Use Migration Assistant to copy  
portions of any TimeMachine backup to a new Mac, or select ?Restore  
System from Time Machine? in the Leopard DVD Utilities menu. Choose  
any date recorded in Time Machine to set up your new Mac exactly as  
your previous Mac was on that date.