Comments on: Check your backups…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:21:50 +0000

I second the hypothosis that switching machines borked it up. I switched my main work stuff from an older PowerBook G4 to a PowerMac G5 (via cloning the drive over from the lappy to the desktop) and just moved the backup drive (connected via USB2). Time Machine didn’t appear to have run. Although I got a warning after 10 days I believe. All I did was turn Time Machine off and on again and everything resumed where it left off. Only a few GB of data, not the whole backup. Since you switched from a PPC to Intel platform, perhaps it got wonkier still?

By: dnorman

dnorman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:37:52 +0000

I leave the drive connected – not sure what happened. It might have been related to the switch from the quad G5 to the octo Intel (using the same drive for backup) but I could swear that it was working after the switch. In the pref. pane, I tried selecting the drive again, and it blew the old stuff away and started from scratch. Doh. I let it run overnight – all 120GB of data. And I’ll be keeping an eye on it from now on…

By: Alec Couros

Alec Couros — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:56:09 +0000

This happened to me as well. I noticed it about two weeks ago, and it had tripped about three weeks earlier it seems. I have no idea why, but thought it was just something I did accidentally … probably not though, looking at your post. This scares me.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:33:08 +0000

I think it flips itself off when you disconnect your drive. But it should stay connected when you re-attach. Good warning. Checking now.