Restore not working

I needed to reformat the hard drive on my powerbook to remove a partition. I thought this would be no problem thanks to Time Machine. I used my Leopard DVD to restore OS X and then tried the restore from Backup. When I did this, it never finished calculating the apps file, and allowed me to restore, or it appeared to, but it got stuck half way through. I have browsed the disk that has the time machine backup and it appears fine. But I can't restore. I have run disk utility on it also, no problems. I can't find backed up applications on it anywhere, just my docs and the application support files. Is that the problem? I thought I could do a real restore of everything, and I don't recall telling time machine don't back up apps. Any thoughts on what I can do?

greg Coogan wrote:
I needed to reformat the hard drive on my powerbook to remove a partition
Depending on where on the drive that partition is, you may be able to do that without a reformat. In Disk Utility, click the top line of the drive (with the make and size), then the Partition tab. That will show a diagram of the existing partitions.
You can delete any partition except the one you're running from, by clicking on it, then the minus sign at the bottom.
You can then drag the lower right corner of the partition above it down to fill the now-empty space, then click Apply.
When I did this, it never finished calculating the apps file, and allowed me to restore, or it appeared to, but it got stuck half way through.
I don't follow: did it finish calculating and start restoring, or did it "get stuck" while calculating?
I have run disk utility on it also, no problems.
I assume you mean +*Repair Disk?+* If not, do that.
I can't find backed up applications on it anywhere, just my docs and the application support files. Is that the problem?
How are you doing that? via the Finder or the TM "Star Wars" display?
I hate to say it, but it sounds like you excluded System files. If you select either /System or /Library, you get a prompt to exclude just the one selected, or all system files. If that's what happened, then OSX wasn't backed-up.
I thought I could do a real restore of everything, and I don't recall telling time machine don't back up apps.
Ordinarily, yes.
Any thoughts on what I can do?
I'm assuming your Mac is still working? If so, go to TM Preferences > Options and see what's listed in the +Do not back up+ box. If you see your system files there, that's what happened.
If so, select that line, then click the minus sign at the bottom to remove the exclusion. Run a backup (it will take a while, including a long "Preparing" phase), but should back up all your system folders.
But either way, if you decide to erase and reformat, I'd strongly advise making a secondary backup, preferably to a separate external HD. Many of us do that routinely (I learned long ago, the hard way of course, never to trust my backups to a single app or piece of hardware: no app is perfect; all hardware fails, sooner or later).
I use CarbonCopyCloner, others use the similar SuperDuper, and still others are in Kappy's post on Basic Backup, complete with links to the web sites of each product.
The advantage to a "clone" is, you can boot up from it and run normally (if a bit more slowly) to be sure everything is there and working, then clone back to your internal HD.

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