I've spent the best part of the whole morning restoring a Mac OS X installation due to the latest OS update destroying some libraries completely and preventing me from being able to get to the login screen. I had to go back and do a system install from my 10.3.0 disk and then run SoftwareUpdate a few times.
So I've lost LOADS of applications that ended up in /usr/bin. A quick diff shows that 190 apps aren't in /usr/bin that were in my previous system, and I fear just copying them over won't be a very good plan.
Not only that, but my printer settings have gone, and these were very carefully customised for photo printing. My monitor calibration settings are also all gone, so I have to do all that again. I'm sure I'll discover other things as time goes on.
Today computers suck.
Re:backups...
Matts on 2005-12-01T21:34:52
Yeah. I do actually keep a copy of/Users/matt on an external firewire (actually USB2) drive, but didn't have the space to also store the whole drive.
Maybe it's time to upgrade that drive. Two days wasted on this now (mostly because I cocked up when restoring something from/usr/lib and had to start over from scratch again). Re:backups...
Lecar_red on 2005-12-02T19:40:48
I had a similar problem with my Mac except the drive complete croaked. I figured $100 bucks was worth it for a new fireware drive off newegg. Useful apps get installed in other places than just/Users, now I just mirror the whole thing...
Good luck on the restore, it sucks to have to do.
Re:Fink
Matts on 2005-12-01T21:36:21
I do use fink. Fink wasn't lost in this debacle - it's still all there and working fine.
