Re: "Search by Content" feature of Time Machine?


"Warren Oates" <warren.oates@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <13jk8m1t7bni437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"G.T." <getnews1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So your backup isn't bootable. Why do you continue to confuse people
with
your horrible use of the English language?

I'm not a Mark fan either, but you're being semantically silly. I make
disk images using hdiutil(1) or Disk Utility, they're not directly
bootable, you can't boot from a .dmg file, you have to be pre-booted
somewhere and then you have to "restore" it somewhere where you can boot
from it, but I still think about it as a "bootable image" or a "bootable
clone" if that's what it was. Of course if it's a Schrodinger's Clone,
then it might go away if you mount it, or maybe not.

I come from the days of bootable tape backups. If something is labelled or
otherwise referred to as bootable around here it means that the boot loader
of whatever system I am sitting at can boot from the device, whether that is
a CD/DVD, a thumbdrive, another harddrive partition, the network, a
tapedrive or a Schrodinger's Clone.

A backup that is bootable once it is restored is simply just a backup.

Greg


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