The least disruptive way to test would be get a blank external hard drive, boot into your recovery partition (or from your time machine disk in later versions) then restore to the external drive and see if it boots
Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:48, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all > > Just a quick question about verifying TimeMachine backups... > > I clone my SSD from time to time, for the easiest reboot should the worst > happen. But I also rely on the TimeMachine. My hope would be if I needed to, > I could buy a new Mac and simply reboot from TimeMachine if the clone wasn't > to hand. > > But with the clone, I can easily boot from that as a startup disk to check > it's working. > Are there any ways of ensuring that the TimeMachine is performing at it > should? Any boot/backup files I should look for to check it would all play > nice? > > Thanks > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
