Time Machine Saved My Behind, Twice.

For the second time in two years, the drive on my iMac died.  The first one was a bad drive, I suspect the second was because I forgot to attach the heat sensor to the new drive.

Anyway, after a completely lost drive several years back I bought a Drobo and set up a RAID volume for TimeMachine - Apple's backup solution for Macs. So, when I woke up Tuesday morning to a clicking drive and a sad Mac, I only had to install a new drive, boot it into the recovery partition on my Drobo, and tell it to restore from the TimeMachine backup.    After 50 hours (!) my OS, computer accounts, my wife's photo library and my iTunes library featuring hundreds of movies, etc., were all restored.

Pretty cool.