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<blockquote data-quote="warmtone" data-source="post: 1733004" data-attributes="member: 78632"><p>Many thanks for the moral support - the back up speed did improve from 20 hours to 10 hours! </p><p>Total time was a mere 22 hours for 85GB. That has to be technology at its worst. </p><p></p><p>Fortunately this is my wife's macbook and the future delta changes are small.</p><p>Point taken re using a cable I will try it next time.</p><p></p><p>In comparison I did a back up on one of my other Mac's (Mac Pro) to a hard drive and it moved 100GB in under 2 hours via Firewire.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally when the OWC SSD failed the main issue was that once I got the SSD boot disc replaced with an old faithful Western Digital 2TB Black - restoration of a year of back ups completely failed when I tried to restore: "No OSX files found" was the message It was one of the holy **** moments. So I had to rebuild the Mac from scratch and it took days.</p><p></p><p>There is no doubt that old OSX back up files are there on the Time Capsule but I don't know how to access the contents of the mysterious "sparse bundle" that seems to be opaque. I suspect a Time Capsule corruption issue that may have occurred when the OSSD failed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For the Mac Pro I have ditched Time Capsule or now as I have lost confidence - I now back up to a dedicated external hard drive - its quicker and more intuitive. Any thoughts on recovering "corrupt" OSX back ups from the time capsule? How do I translate the "sparse bundle" into a readable format that can be analysed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="warmtone, post: 1733004, member: 78632"] Many thanks for the moral support - the back up speed did improve from 20 hours to 10 hours! Total time was a mere 22 hours for 85GB. That has to be technology at its worst. Fortunately this is my wife's macbook and the future delta changes are small. Point taken re using a cable I will try it next time. In comparison I did a back up on one of my other Mac's (Mac Pro) to a hard drive and it moved 100GB in under 2 hours via Firewire. Incidentally when the OWC SSD failed the main issue was that once I got the SSD boot disc replaced with an old faithful Western Digital 2TB Black - restoration of a year of back ups completely failed when I tried to restore: "No OSX files found" was the message It was one of the holy **** moments. So I had to rebuild the Mac from scratch and it took days. There is no doubt that old OSX back up files are there on the Time Capsule but I don't know how to access the contents of the mysterious "sparse bundle" that seems to be opaque. I suspect a Time Capsule corruption issue that may have occurred when the OSSD failed. For the Mac Pro I have ditched Time Capsule or now as I have lost confidence - I now back up to a dedicated external hard drive - its quicker and more intuitive. Any thoughts on recovering "corrupt" OSX back ups from the time capsule? How do I translate the "sparse bundle" into a readable format that can be analysed? [/QUOTE]
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