Michael Tsai
Dave Nanian
@mjtsai Might see something in the system log that explains what’s going on…
You have failed me for the last time, Time Machine. Clean system install. Newly formatted backup drive. No excuse to not be able to back up.
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@dnanian “Backup failed with error 2: 2” - View other replies
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@mjtsai Nothing else from backups? -
@dnanian Just that it was starting the backup. UI said it couldn’t create the backup folder, which is what it often says. Perms seem OK. -
@mjtsai Destination drive secure erased to try to remap sectors? -
@dnanian Just regular erase, but I did a full scan for bad blocks. -
@mjtsai Weird. Haven’t seen it myself. -
@dnanian This has happened to me with about 6 destination drives on at least 3 Macs. :( Anyway, I’ll just use other software going forward. - Show more
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@mjtsai Just use a better backup solution, like@crashplan. TM has been unreliable since it shipped. (You can use them in tandem, too.) - View other replies
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@marczak Yep, already using CrashPlan and Arq on my main Mac. I think I’ll have this other Mac CrashPlan to the main Mac. -
@mjtsai Oh, good. TM is nice, but so unreliable. -
@marczak I kept thinking it would be sufficient for this super simple case. Clearly a mistake.
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@mjtsai So lame that destroying all your data on a Time Machine volume is necessary to “fix” problems.#FileARadarToBeIgnored
Edward Marczak
Adam R. Maxwell
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