At 3:12 PM -0500 1/11/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
I booted from OS X DVD and tried to repair all the volumes. After
the computer ran awhile, I got this message-Volume Time Machine
backup could not be repaired. error-File system repair failed.
Ok, good - in that we now know the problem is
Honestly - TM is simply not reliable. You'd be better off if you
used CCC or SuperDuper.
- Dan.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth
You were right. I wiped out the Time Machine backup volume and
restarted it. Sure enough, I got the same failure note. I
Without knowing exactly what error it ran into originally... the only
choice left is to wipe out the backup and restart it. Chances are
pretty good in n days it will slam into the same problemo tho.
Honestly - TM is simply not reliable. You'd be better off if you
used CCC or SuperDuper.
On Jan 10, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Without knowing exactly what error it ran into originally... the only
choice left is to wipe out the backup and restart it. Chances are
pretty good in n days it will slam into the same problemo tho.
Honestly - TM is simply not reliable.
At 10:42 PM -0500 1/10/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
If I reinstall OS 10.5 would that resolve my problem?
I doubt reinstalling OS X will help wrt Time Machine. At this time,
TM is, IMO, a cute thing to play with, but that's all.
Um... When you get a chance, please boot from your OS X DVD and do
All logs are available thru the Console app,
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
...Select Show Log List from Console's View menu. As you can see
there are a lot of logs! system.log contains system-wide events -
things like the Time Machine failures. console.log contains your
user
At 3:49 PM -0500 1/8/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
All logs are available thru the Console app,
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
When I proceed from Applications through Utilities I find nothing
called Console.app. I'm obviously missing something.
Have you been deleting things from the system
On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Dan wrote:
At 3:49 PM -0500 1/8/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
All logs are available thru the Console app,
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
When I proceed from Applications through Utilities I find nothing
called Console.app. I'm obviously missing something.
On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Dan wrote:
At 3:49 PM -0500 1/8/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
All logs are available thru the Console app,
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
When I proceed from Applications through Utilities I find nothing
called
This happens on my Vista PC when I do'nt have a restore point set in
backup, or if I have a different drive designated for back up than the
original. I believe Macs' are automatic so perhaps the problem lies
in what drive you have designated for your backup.
On Jan 8, 7:19 pm, Charles Davis
Hello,
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was successful and I don't know why it won't work
properly.
I have an eMac, using OS 10.5.6.
Thanks
Wilton
Wilton Shaw
At 12:24 PM -0500 1/7/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was successful and I don't know why it won't work
properly.
I have an eMac, using OS 10.5.6.
Check
Wilton Shaw wrote:
Hello,
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was successful and I don't know why it won't work properly.
I have an eMac, using OS 10.5.6.
Thanks
Wilton
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:24 PM -0500 1/7/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was successful and I don't know why it won't work
On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:24 PM -0500 1/7/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was
On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:09 PM, insightinmind wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but I can't find anything called System
Log. Where is it?
In Tiger 10.4.11:
Apple About This Mac More Info Software Logs system.log
Slight correction (adding Software in the sequence, in case its not
At 4:57 PM -0500 1/7/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:24 PM -0500 1/7/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Yesterday today whenever I go to my computer, I have a note on the
screen saying my latest backup had failed. I don't know when the
latest backup was successful and
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