[fpgeek]

Time Machine has other issues. My wife's hard drive crashed last year and we thought it would be no big deal because of our Time Machine backups (since we had other copies of everything we wanted, mostly photos, since the last backup).

Only, it turned out that one of the things Time Machine didn't backup by default is iPhoto (apparently because there's some special Time Machine / iPhoto integration, ironically enough). Since our photos were the most important thing on that hard drive, we ended up paying $$$$ to a data-recovery service to get them off of the broken drive.

Now we have different kinds of backups for the important things like photos, but we both totally understand why Time Machine / Time Capsules are some of Apple's most poorly reviewed products.

[garyrichardson]

TM backs up my iPhoto by default. Several restores have proven so.

[fpgeek]

I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't for us. It is entirely possible we did something wrong, but we tried to use the defaults and still don't know what mistake we made.

The reason I mentioned Time Machine / iPhoto integration is that iPhoto is the only application where we had to go to the application itself to see the Time Machine history of data. For everything else, we used Time Machine directly. It seems to us that the two different oddities (no iPhoto backup and iPhoto / Time Machine integration) are probably connected.