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10.5: Compare Time Machine backups to original drive
Authored by: wfolta on Nov 23, '07 12:14:17PM

I found no problems with mine.

What kind of error indications did you get? You have to be careful that you're not seeing diff issues as opposed to actual differences. Time Machine uses various UNIX tricks to avoid making backups of unchanged files, and I believe that the recursive diff can have problems with that.

Also, I saw issues with file names that had special characters in them, specifically colons and parenthesis. These characters need to be escaped in the Terminal shell, but not in Finder, and recursive diff may have a bug in it where it does not properly handle the filename. The files were there, though diff reported that they were not in the backup.



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