HT201250: Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac

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Q: Automatic Time machine back up.

My work place uses the Apple iMac computers and they have been great. Students use them to learn their course work.

 

But because of this, the image gets messed up. We need Time Machine to backup automatically after each class AT A CERTAIN TIME, so each student has a fair experience with non-windows operating systems starting from scratch.

 

 

How can this be archieved?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 3, 2014 7:04 AM

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  • by markwmsn,

    markwmsn markwmsn Feb 3, 2014 7:29 AM in response to MACwhizED
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    Feb 3, 2014 7:29 AM in response to MACwhizED

    Sounds more like you want to do a restore from an unchanging image on top of the live system not a backup of the ever-changing live system to the Time Machine disk.

     

    I do not know of a way to automate restoring over the live system. If there is a way, Time Machine is almost certainly the wrong tool for it.

     

    Could you have the students use the Guest account that reinitializes itself at every login?

  • by MACwhizED,

    MACwhizED MACwhizED Feb 3, 2014 8:20 AM in response to markwmsn
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    Feb 3, 2014 8:20 AM in response to markwmsn

    That would be impossible.

    This class teaches students to use the UNIX/LINUX and MAC enviroment as an administrator.

     

    This way they can learn a good amount of non-windows operating systems in a short period of time.

     

    Such teachings are,

     

    programming, scripting, account management, HD formatting (7-passes), installing 3rd party applications, etc.....

     

    And therefore learn the administrive differences between Windows OS and MAC OS X

     

    Is there a script that we can download from a 3rd party, or another application we could consider?

  • by markwmsn,

    markwmsn markwmsn Feb 3, 2014 8:44 AM in response to MACwhizED
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    Feb 3, 2014 8:44 AM in response to MACwhizED

    You might have better luck consulting Apple's resources for Educational IT teams. We're pretty much general users here trying to help each other.

     

    Here's a starting point that deals with some of the issues of imaging systems in an educational environment:

    http://images.apple.com/education/docs/l521219b_osx_deployment_guide_030513.pdf