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Wednesday 2 September 2015

Having to deal with corrupted Time Machine backups

A consequence of the regular, and as yet unexplained, power cuts we get is that the separate Western Digital 2TB hard disk drive that I have set up for Time Machine backups ultimately gets hacked off and refuses to start again.

Trying to verify and then repair disk doesn't work. So all that can be done is to reformat the disk, and start TM backups again.

Fortunately I have other backup destinations, so this is not as awful as it may sound