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Re: Forcing Time Machine to Use a Local Volume as a Network Volume

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On 3/11/14, 11:11 AM, Bread wrote:
> And in fact, one of my external TM volumes, as of yesterday, appears to
> be hosed and Disk Utility says to "copy the files off and reformat."
> Hrmf.  Since it's just one of several backups, I'll probably just wipe
> it and start from scratch.  This is the first time that a local
> (non-disk-image) TM volume got hosed this way on me.  I've had the TM
> volumes which I remotely mount up from my Airport Extreme get hosed a
> few times over the years.

I wonder why/how they get hosed.  (I don't think its a hardware problem 
with my backup medium.)  You'd think that would be one function that 
they've worked hard to get very reliable.  I backup my stuff with TM to 
an external drive attached to another mac on my home network that's 
always running.  Every now and then I get a "can't backup message" which 
I attribute to wifi connection problems and it always seems to recover 
from that.  Except that once several months ago I did a "verify backups" 
operation, after I'd tried to restore a file and it wasn't going well, 
and got the bad news that the backup was unusable and would need to be 
reformatted.  Every now and then I've done the verify op and things seem 
OK.  I suppose I ought to get another drive and rotate backups, but I'm 
lazy.

-- 
Ted

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Forcing Time Machine to Use a Local Volume as a Network Volume Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-07 15:16 +0000
  Re: Forcing Time Machine to Use a Local Volume as a Network Volume Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-03-11 09:11 -0700
    Re: Forcing Time Machine to Use a Local Volume as a Network Volume Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 11:42 -0500
      Re: Forcing Time Machine to Use a Local Volume as a Network Volume David Sankey <David.Sankey@stfc.ac.uk> - 2014-03-12 13:35 +0000

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