[X4U] Time Machine

[Jim Robertson]

On 11/7/07 3:21 PM, "Robert Ameeti" <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:

> Time Machine has to get a good read before it can do a write.

I'm curious. The original poster didn't know his internal drive was bad,
which means it apparently wasn't having frequent problems in ordinary use.
If there were FREQUENT problems, wouldn't they be apparent to a
well-designed backup utility; i.e., shouldn't it verify its reads/writes as
it does its job?

If I read the original poster's original report correctly, Time Machine
didn't complain at all while filling up 43 gigabytes of his backup disk, but
then had nothing available for him when he tried to find either a single
file or anything at all.

I wouldn't be happy about that if I'd paid for the backup software!

Jim Robertson
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