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What exactly doesn't time machine save?
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<blockquote data-quote="AndyClift" data-source="post: 1391841" data-attributes="member: 142515"><p>Pendlewitch</p><p></p><p>More info. needed. What system problem did you have when you did the first backup and how did you know the resulting backup was corrupt.</p><p></p><p>As far as I am concerned backing up to time Machine is the same as saving a file. You do it and the system saves the file/backup and you forget it. In three years of Macs (iMac, Macbook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) plus more years of using PCs than I care to remember (I go back to Sinclair ZX81s and BBC Micro and Amigas) there has only been two situations where I have had a corrupt file and that was when power was lost during saving or a hard drive failed (once). My use for my computer has been for running a business producing promo video. This could mean many weeks of work reliant on video files on a hard drive. In the days of V expensive drives and slow read/write rates I could never have a back up of these files and never had a failure.</p><p></p><p>On all my Macs I have on occasion had the need to restore the system using the last Time Machine backup and have also had to find files on Time Machine that I had deleted from my Mac and have never had a problem so I think you are getting too concerned.</p><p></p><p>I let my iMac backup automatically, my MacBooks don't get plugged into their Time Machine hard drives very often so back up every week or so. Important files are also saved to a separate backup drive and/or a DVD ROM. That gives me two backups of everything that matters. If they all fail I think I would go back to pencil and paper.</p><p></p><p>Last silly question. Do you ever fly? Aircraft systems normally have two backups to allow for failure. if they all fails YOU DIE. A suggest if you are concerned about three hard drives all failing at the same time, don't travel by air !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndyClift, post: 1391841, member: 142515"] Pendlewitch More info. needed. What system problem did you have when you did the first backup and how did you know the resulting backup was corrupt. As far as I am concerned backing up to time Machine is the same as saving a file. You do it and the system saves the file/backup and you forget it. In three years of Macs (iMac, Macbook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air) plus more years of using PCs than I care to remember (I go back to Sinclair ZX81s and BBC Micro and Amigas) there has only been two situations where I have had a corrupt file and that was when power was lost during saving or a hard drive failed (once). My use for my computer has been for running a business producing promo video. This could mean many weeks of work reliant on video files on a hard drive. In the days of V expensive drives and slow read/write rates I could never have a back up of these files and never had a failure. On all my Macs I have on occasion had the need to restore the system using the last Time Machine backup and have also had to find files on Time Machine that I had deleted from my Mac and have never had a problem so I think you are getting too concerned. I let my iMac backup automatically, my MacBooks don't get plugged into their Time Machine hard drives very often so back up every week or so. Important files are also saved to a separate backup drive and/or a DVD ROM. That gives me two backups of everything that matters. If they all fail I think I would go back to pencil and paper. Last silly question. Do you ever fly? Aircraft systems normally have two backups to allow for failure. if they all fails YOU DIE. A suggest if you are concerned about three hard drives all failing at the same time, don't travel by air !! [/QUOTE]
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