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I'm pretty sure Time Machine backs up the stuff in the user's home directory. It probably has some options. But I've only set it up a few times. Always with an external hard drive larger than the one built into the Mac Book the person owned. (Never see desktop Macs these days.) I do know it works really cool with seeing previous versions of files.
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Time Machine by default backs up the whole machine, although you can explicitly exclude files and folders.
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Thanks, Ken and Chris. I'll have to see what I can figure out.
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Time Machine was easy to get going. I went ahead and let it start backing up my mother's computer, since it was only 139 gigs of data. I have enough storage for now. We'll see how much data my dad has.
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IMHO, you'll want a full Time Machine backup anyways. If anything fails, you can use the backup to format a brand new drive.
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Even better, install a fresh copy of OS X, then use Time Machine to load everything (including applications!) back onto it as part of the OS setup process. Which is awesome.
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Awesome, but slooooow. Still, faster than loading everything back on yourself.
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Not all that slow for me? Of course, I was using a FW800 disk as the source and an SSD as the target.
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