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Time Machine: Mount backup disk on demand
Mounted drives are unsafe for exactly the reasons that Apple wants you to unmount a drive before physically unplugging it. Maximizing the fraction of the time that one can safely yank a drive off the computer without warning just isn't part of Apple's spec. However, try teaching this to the California power companies! I do have a UPS protecting my equipment, but a cautious backup strategy demands that I plan on its eventual failure. Developing a backup strategy requires one to be constructively paranoid. If I get hosed by a failure mode I wasn't expecting, I still have only myself to blame.
Yes, I monitor the logs from my daily and hourly tasks, as part of the routine of rotating media. Were an update to clobber these tasks, I'd notice right away. |
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