12-29-2008, 12:17 PM
I have been using TM to back up both my MB and MBP; sort of a time capsule arrangement except I have an Airport Extreme with a USB drive connected for the TM backups.
Bottom line - after several months using TM with every now and again getting a message that it couldn't mount the backup drive (which WAS mounted) and starting over with a scratch backup, I quit using TM and went back to regular CCC backups for both machines.
The one time I would have liked to use TM was when I had an issue after doing an OS upgrade and, without going through more work than I had to with CCC, I couldn't restore it to a day earlier using TM.
YMMV.
Bottom line - after several months using TM with every now and again getting a message that it couldn't mount the backup drive (which WAS mounted) and starting over with a scratch backup, I quit using TM and went back to regular CCC backups for both machines.
The one time I would have liked to use TM was when I had an issue after doing an OS upgrade and, without going through more work than I had to with CCC, I couldn't restore it to a day earlier using TM.
YMMV.