Is time machine a complete system back up

I am buying a new mac and want to save all of the information on my old mac - is time machine suitable to accomplish that or do i need to do more?

JZPalau wrote:
I am buying a new mac and want to save all of the information on my old mac - is time machine suitable to accomplish that or do i need to do more?
I advise using Carbon Copy Cloner on a Disk Utility GUID/ OS X Exended Jorunaled drive instead with the old Mac.
First off it's faster than TimeMachine, you can use Migration Assistant against it which transfers everything except OS X (because you will have a different version on the new machine), you can also cherry pick what you want without using Migration Assistant leaving old files behind.
Once your done, you can install CCC on the new Mac and use the license there to create a new clone of that boot drive and all it's contents.
Advantage is the clone drive is bootable using the option/alt key held at boot time, and TimeMachine is not.
So if your computer goes down, you can be up and on the clone in seconds and reverse cloning your way of whatever mess occured and be done in a hour.
TimeMachine takes a horribly long time to setup and to restore, also unlike a clone, it's not verifiable that things are there and working. A clone you can boot and check it out to be sure it's going to restore and your programs are working.
So if you can go the bootable clone route, you'll be a lot better off than with TimeMachine alone.
Some people use both, and leave a clone offsite or in a safe, because the TM drive is connected more often and thus subjected to power spikes, theft, fire and whatnot.
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