Time Machine Woes
Yesterday, I decided it was time to move on. I deleted my bootable Tiger backup and turned on Time Machine. I like the fact that it promises to do hourly/daily/weekly incremental backups, and the Time Machine application, while heavy on the cheese, is a pretty nice way to access backup recovery.
But backups aren’t backups unless you test that you can recover files (and you know how to do it without having to mess around when the time comes). So today, with a day’s worth of backup history, I decided to play with Time Machine.
I flipped back and forth thru time-cheese, and after a few seconds the world disappeared. Oh wait, it was just my MacBook Pro rebooting. Bong. Apple. Spin wheel. Login.
Nothing in any of the logs (there wasn’t time) - just a hard, fast, shutdown.
So, I did what any self-respecting software engineer would do. I tried it again. Same result. I have now hard-rebooted my machine like 10 times via Time Machine (I don’t recommend it).
If recovering a file risks a hard shutdown, and I can’t resolve this - I will just have to go back to rsync.
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