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In essense, it's not a true one to one backup, but it's like 99.9% there. It will backup all your files, users, user documents, settings, applications etc, but not quite every file. … I don't believe you need to be an admin user to do a backup, as the backup daemon is always running as a priveleged process anyway and you just pass it the message to go and do it's stuff, therefore you …

If the Mac is running OS X Server (In 10.7, not sure if this is available for 10.6) then you can turn on Time Machine Server, which does exactly what you need. There's no need to run any of the other …

Time Machine was not introduced until Leopard, so you will not be able to take a Time Machine backup of it, unless you were able to somehow connect the drive to another Leopard-or-newer Mac and back it …

You could always boot from your Time Machine backup, open up the Keychain Access command and export the keys you want. … They will be stored as files within the backup, but are encrypted so not a lot of use. …

You can't, it's controlled by iTunes. You can ask the owner to turn off the "automatically sync when iPod is connected" setting, or you can watch for the sync starting and swipe to cancel, but those …

They can backup your files, but often not necessarily capture the extended attributes with regards to ownership and permissions etc, resulting in an inability to make a sensible restore. …

As things stand, keeping using the same store will allow you to even revert back to Lion if you so desired, the worst that can happen is the new OS install changes being large enough to fill your backup … disk and force the removal of some of your older backups, but even so it's worth keeping with the same backup. …

Move it into a new directory, technically it's a new file, so new backup. There is no way to avoid this in the current implementation. … Having said that, the old stuff will naturally get recycled off as it's no longer required should the backup drive fill. …

Of course, you have to wait up to 1 hour (+the time it take to make the backup, depending on how large the queue is and where your file sits in it) to ensure those changes are included in the backup. … Time Machine would not backup their home folders until such time as they logged out because the Sparseimage file was constantly locked by the fact the user had it mounted. …

If you want to backup specific areas, like just your Documents and Settings folder, then you may find that accessing the bootcamp partition through Parallels or VMWare Fusion etc will allow you to make …

You don't explicitly state it, but is one of the APs extending the other, or are they both separate network IDs? If they are participating in what used to be called a WDS extended network, then it's …

Text Messages are stored in a Database format, and not as individual files. It's unlikely that they will ever be "overwritten" in the sense you ask, but may well remain in the database tables either …

This can result in filling your backup drive quickly, constantly backup etc etc, and you may find that there is a better solution for certain files like these. … And that's not a very good backup regime if your data is important, in fact it's barely any better than a once a day drive clone. Just some things for you to consider :) …

in the list that appears under the adjacent column, drag the following two items into the space in the right of the screen: Copy Finder Items Rename Finder Items Next, either create (or locate) a backup …

This way, when you restore, it's not just a case of being able to restore to the current most recent backup on your TM, but being able to go back in time to any point that it still covers and restore to … Now, for more everyday changes, here's a good example of how you can consume a good amount of space in your backup drive without changing anything. TM backs up at a file level. …