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10.5: Beware using Time Machine with a failing disk
Authored by: homepup on Feb 25, '08 07:34:49PM

Totally agree with this one. I lost a hard drive a couple of weeks ago, received a replacement and restored via my Time Machine backup. Then noticed a couple of days later that half my iTunes library was missing. Upon digging deeper, realized that my hard drive had been failing for a couple of weeks without any warning. You could actually see the files disappearing by going 'back and forth in time' via Time Machine.

Now my dilemma is do I go to a backup that's a couple of weeks old and lose any changed files over the past couple of weeks, or just wait until I come across more missing files and manually dig for them in Time Machine.



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