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My Time Machine backups fail from time to time which means that upon restarting the backup it breaks all links to old backups. My external hard drive has plenty of room but it glitches now and again. Upon restarting the backup it has no "memory" of old backups that clearly are on the disk.
How can I reindex the hard drive so Time Machine sees these backups? I have tried everything I know including deleting the InProgress file.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
Disable TM, rename the TM drive with simple name...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Setup TM again.
Disable TM, rename the TM drive with simple name...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Setup TM again.
Have you run Disk Utility's First Aid on both?
Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem to help. Both drives are in good shape but the magical link between Time Machine's memory and the drive seem be be broken.
I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Time Machine reindexing?
