Thu, 08 Apr 2010

Time Machine software...

...possibly some of the most delicate software in the known apple universe. Once again either it or something separate has caused corruption on the time machine backup disk, and once again nothing has recovered my machine short of 'reboot' typed at the command prompt. It seems that if anything goes wrong with Time Machine it just sits there consuming resources giving the user no clue that anything has even gone wrong. Thanks a bunch Apple. I'm hugely confident that my data is safe with you and your dubious software.

Fortunately, last weekend saw me set up a Linux based server solution which allows me to back up most data to a known working, safe solution that I can recover data from. And if there's an error with it, I'll find tons of info in /var/log/syslog most likely, instead of the cast canyon of nothingness that Apple seems to see fit to provide users with. I won't even mention the stupidity of Apple's Disk utility giving time estimates as to when it might be finished - I've seen Windows copy operations estimate time better.

Yes, this is a bitter article and yes, I find Apple's hardware and software to be generally of a decent standard - but I'm trusting my data to this backup solution and this is the second time I find myself putting the pieces back together. I have zero faith in Apple Time Machine any more.

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