Chose software here as people may not use time capsules.
I've just put new drives in my mac mini and went to use the recovery console to pull down the backup off time machine.
Unfortunately, it tells me that there are no Mac OS X system backups available for that machine, despite it having the sparsebundle still on the time capsule !
Needless to say, its a good job I do have a working drive still that I have taken out, so I'll try migration assistant from Lion first, and then if that doesn't work, try a USB caddy and image that way.
So, boys and girls, we should all do it anyway, but check those backups actually do work !
Simply booting into the console holding down the option key and browsing to the backups will show you if they actually look like they might work or not.
I've just put new drives in my mac mini and went to use the recovery console to pull down the backup off time machine.
Unfortunately, it tells me that there are no Mac OS X system backups available for that machine, despite it having the sparsebundle still on the time capsule !
Needless to say, its a good job I do have a working drive still that I have taken out, so I'll try migration assistant from Lion first, and then if that doesn't work, try a USB caddy and image that way.
So, boys and girls, we should all do it anyway, but check those backups actually do work !
Simply booting into the console holding down the option key and browsing to the backups will show you if they actually look like they might work or not.