A full restore story

Last night I was doing some work when all of a sudden the entire screen froze. After trying numerous key combinations, I decided to do a hard shut down using the power button. As I pressed and waited, I thought I heard the hard disk work a little, then shut down. When I rebooted, I could get past the login screen but after that everything froze. Tried rebooting numerous times before giving up and going to bed. I was afraid some system file had been corrupted, but who knows?
I've been using TM and backing up to two locations, 1) an attached USB drive (used at work, but I carry it with me) and 2) a mounted volume on another Mac at home.
The next morning I booted off my OSX install disk. Since I wasn't sure whether a remote drive could be found when doing a full restore with the install disk, I had attached the USB drive. It's most recent backup was older than the remote drive's, but there were no important files involved. When OSX came up, I choose a restore from TM backup (from the menu). A window popped up listing the attached drive. There was an OK button to press to choose it, but there was also a greyed out "find remote drive" button (or some equivalent label). I'm guessing it was not available since an attached drive took precedence. [I'll be interested in hearing from someone who has done a full restore from a remote drive.]
Once I chose the drive, a list of recent backup dates was presented. I chose the most recent one. (Funny though, it was from 2:30pm the day before, when I was very sure the last time a backup occurred was around 5:00pm; and I'm sure there were some new files to back up.)
Then TM began a restore - took a little over 2 hours, but when it was done, I rebooted, and voila! my drive was back. I also found some files that were restored that I had edited after the 2:30 time, so I don't know what that's about.
But it all worked, very simple process! Now I feel more confident using TM.

Just a thought - I wonder if the apparent time discrepancy might relate to time zones. Perhaps the DVD is using a different time zone than your computer is.
Glad to hear it worked - hope I don't have to test it myself any time soon!
Doug

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