> On Dec 5, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2014-12-04, at 8:06 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'd like a way to verify a time machine backup. >> >> If Time Machine completed without an error, it’s verified. > > That is just silly.
Not really. > 1. Any program can have bugs. Time machine included. (I have found time > machine making errors, and reported them. The only solution I have so far is > to wipe the backup and start over). And if it had a bug, it would STILL verify. > 2. Unless you flush the system cache and the drive cache, and force a re-read > from the media, there is no way to test for silent data corruption. I don't > think time machine does this. I don't know of any system API to flush the > kernel cache, nor of any device independent way to flush the drive cache. No, Time machine writes and check what it wrote. If it can read a corrupted file, then it will write and verify a corrupted file. But then, so will anything else. -- NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM MY ARMPITS Bart chalkboard Ep. 3F01 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
