Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery

Time Machine is an advanced feature in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This is an easy-to-use and automatic backup tool. It goes back in time and recovers deleted or lost files from the drive. The tool also enables you to completely restore your drive in case of system crash. It creates incremental backup of the files, which can be restored at later stage.

How does the Time Machine Work?

It creates a directory on external storage device, which is named as current date and time. Then the backup tool copies whole primary drive to directory. Thereafter, it creates new directory on remote drive every hour using the same naming system. However, in place of making another absolute copy of the drive, it backs up the files that modified, and creates the hard links to files that exist on drive. You can browse the 'versions' of primary drive and check the file integrity.

How to Recover Mac Using Time Machine Backup ?

You can recover entire Mac using below steps, if your startup or system disk gets damaged-

• Connect Time Machine backup drive to your system.
• Insert Mac OS X installation disk, and double-click Install Mac OS X icon.
• In Installer, select Utilities and then choose Restore System from Backup.
• In Restore Your System dialog box, click Continue button.
• Select the Time Machine backup volume.
• Select your Time Machine backup that you need to restore.
• Follow instructions as comes on screen.

In case if the backup media fails, you need to use third party Mac Data Recovery tools, such as Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery, to retrieve lost files, directories, and hard drive volumes. This is an easy-to-use Mac Recovery application that works in all data loss situations.

You can easily recovery lost data using Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery software through below steps :

Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery v5 is a powerful and user-friendly Mac Recovery application that ensures absolute recovery of data from formatted Mac hard drives. The read only software provides safe, robust and effective Mac Data Recovery from formatted hard drives. Built with highly graphical user interface, the software is easy to understand without prior Mac data recovery experience. Below are the steps that you need to follow to recover your lost data:

Step 1 : Launch Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery. A screen as shown below is displayed. Select appropriate Mac Data Recovery mode as per your data loss situation.

Step 2 : The software lists hard drives, hard drive volumes, and removable storage media. Select affected drive for Data Recovery Mac and click Continue button.

Step 3 : It then scans the selected drive for Mac Recovery and lists all recoverable files in tree format. Select all or required files and save them to safe location.