Time Machine Restore

To my immense relief, restoring from a Time Machine backup seems to (mostly) have Just Worked. Phew!

The minor things I've spotted so far are:

• Apache stopped working after the restore. As discussed here and here, a simple sudo mkdir /private/var/log/apache2 sorted things out.
• My local Bugzilla installation seems to have lost some bugs I entered before the crash. However, it's entirely possible that I entered them just before the crash, and so they didn't make it across to the backup.

Crash!

Bit of a disaster this evening—the hard drive on the Powerbook has died. No booting, no sign of it in Disk Utility (when booting from CD), and a strange clicking noise at startup. (I was in the middle of updating an iPod Classic to 1.0.3 firmware at the time, and the sync process had already failed a couple of times for no apparent reason.)

The really distressing part is that it died while it was in the process of updating the offsite backup (which is my iPod), and it managed to trash that too.

So let's hope that Time Machine lives up to its billing.