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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1431321" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>It sounds like your internal hard drive is just failing and when it the backup (or copy) procedure reaches files that are in those locations on the hard drive that have experienced a failure, the backup (or copy) procedure is failing to complete its operation. </p><p></p><p>Although it may appear that TM is backing up your data and less and less is being copied each time, I wouldn't feel comfortable with the backup being of useable quality.</p><p></p><p>If it were me, I'd get another external hard drive and copy as much data as I could to it prior to the internal drive failing completely and being unusable.</p><p></p><p>Now, that said, in the future I'd suggest - once you have your boot drive fixed - to regularly backup your machine and not wait until you're in an emergency state because at that point it may just be too late to recover your data.</p><p></p><p>Note: Lol - CWA beat me to the post - I gotta work on typing faster in the morning <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 1431321, member: 89124"] It sounds like your internal hard drive is just failing and when it the backup (or copy) procedure reaches files that are in those locations on the hard drive that have experienced a failure, the backup (or copy) procedure is failing to complete its operation. Although it may appear that TM is backing up your data and less and less is being copied each time, I wouldn't feel comfortable with the backup being of useable quality. If it were me, I'd get another external hard drive and copy as much data as I could to it prior to the internal drive failing completely and being unusable. Now, that said, in the future I'd suggest - once you have your boot drive fixed - to regularly backup your machine and not wait until you're in an emergency state because at that point it may just be too late to recover your data. Note: Lol - CWA beat me to the post - I gotta work on typing faster in the morning ;) [/QUOTE]
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