On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Dan wrote: > > OTOH, Time Machine is known to shoot itself in the head quite often. It > corrupts its own backup volumes, sometimes to the point they won't even > mount. This is why we consider TM to be a cute hourly incremental system > and recommend using CCC or SuperDuper for your real backups.
As an another anecdotal non-data point, I have NEVER seen this happen, and I've set up dozens of time machine disks for various folks around the college, and myself. We have had issues where the drives died, but never an issue of time machine corrupting itself. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
