Apple Time Machine Not Filling Disk

[Michael Z. - Noiseconformist]

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.

   Michael.