At 1:58 PM -0500 12/27/2008, insightinmind wrote: > > Bad. All backups lost. None of the TM images were recoverable by >> any method we tried. Apple told us to wipe it out and start over. A >> few days later it barfed again. Rinse repeat rebarf. ... TM has >> become the butt of the office jokes. He doesn't really care, to be >> honest, as all thru this we've been using CCC etc - which has never > > failed us. > >Curious ... when you did your TM backups that later failed, were you >also multi-tasking? or leaving the OS to backup only?
Tried both ways. >My QS Dual 1GHz with OS X 10.5.4 is fairly simple now, and I haven't >had trouble with TM backups. I stop opening / closing folders, or any >apps I'm under control of, while the process is underway. It really should not matter what else is going on, as the file system fully supports multiple readers to a file. The source is not the issue. The issue is that the TM software is buggy - now and then it simply fails to write usable output. Even if the file data it was writing were foo, the file structure it writes should be intact! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
