Is there a good version of Time Machine?

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Mon Feb 29 10:50:08 PST 2016


On Feb 29, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, lets see. You had power loss on an external drive, on a Linux system. So the Linux system was either reporting "file stored on drive" when it was not,

or it was just reporting back that the drive said the file was stored when it wasn't (most 'consumer' drives lie like this).

> So, if something happened to clobber a file on the backup drive, there is another copy. Given the inevitable "data damage will happen", that's just prudent normal operator behavior.

I find Ryan's advice here (have more than one TM backup device) to be the most reasonable way for someone to try to mitigate that problem.
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Daniel J. Luke





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