{"id":11461,"date":"2015-06-12T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:34:26","slug":"why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&rsquo;t Rely on Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joeontech.net\/why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine.html\">Joe Kissell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joeontech.net\/why-i-dont-rely-on-time-machine.html\">\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, not long before my new book was published, Time Machine displayed the following helpful error message on my Mac: &ldquo;Time Machine couldn&rsquo;t complete the backup to &lsquo;Backup Drive&rsquo;. Unable to compete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When my backups become suddenly inaccessible for unknown reasons and I&rsquo;m offered no solution but starting over, that sort of diminishes my faith in the software.<\/p>\n<p>Then yesterday, Morgen&rsquo;s laptop, which backs up to a completely different destination (a Time Capsule), displayed yet another error message: &ldquo;Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on &lsquo;Zora&rsquo;. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you. Click Start New Backup to create a new backup. This will remove your existing backup history. This could take several hours. Click Back Up Later to be reminded tomorrow. Time Machine won&rsquo;t perform backups during this time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve encountered both of these errors, the first one with probably 10 <em>different<\/em> backup destinations, so I don&rsquo;t think it can be blamed on hardware.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kissell: A couple of weeks ago, not long before my new book was published, Time Machine displayed the following helpful error message on my Mac: &ldquo;Time Machine couldn&rsquo;t complete the backup to &lsquo;Backup Drive&rsquo;. Unable to compete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.&rdquo; [&#8230;] When my backups become suddenly inaccessible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,131,903,503,216],"class_list":["post-11461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-bug","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite","tag-timecapsule","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11462,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions\/11462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}