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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1932486" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>First off, I agree with the others that the WD Passport is a real piece and should be replaced on that basis alone. That said, the problem may not be the drive itself. There have been issues with Ventura and Time Machine backups, and I was plagued by these myself. I have a thread about it, but basically I had all the appearances of successful backups to my Time Capsule (an old-school Apple Time Capsule, with a drive replaced less than 3 years ago), but the backups never actually made it to the TC. Daily snapshots were being made and ready to upload, but not actually uploading. I was able to determine this using one of the tools in TinkerTool System that was able to show me the state of local snapshots and what backups are on the TC, as well as let me delete any individual one. The solution? I ran Onyx' maintenance tools to clear the caches, rebuilt Spotlight, etc etc. And my backups resumed proper operation. That honestly surprised me, but I've been problem-free since. It would have been easy to blame the issue on the TC hardware, but it's operating like a champ again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1932486, member: 38864"] First off, I agree with the others that the WD Passport is a real piece and should be replaced on that basis alone. That said, the problem may not be the drive itself. There have been issues with Ventura and Time Machine backups, and I was plagued by these myself. I have a thread about it, but basically I had all the appearances of successful backups to my Time Capsule (an old-school Apple Time Capsule, with a drive replaced less than 3 years ago), but the backups never actually made it to the TC. Daily snapshots were being made and ready to upload, but not actually uploading. I was able to determine this using one of the tools in TinkerTool System that was able to show me the state of local snapshots and what backups are on the TC, as well as let me delete any individual one. The solution? I ran Onyx' maintenance tools to clear the caches, rebuilt Spotlight, etc etc. And my backups resumed proper operation. That honestly surprised me, but I've been problem-free since. It would have been easy to blame the issue on the TC hardware, but it's operating like a champ again. [/QUOTE]
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