Carbon Copy Cloner corrupts Time Machine?
Hello all -
I recently had my internal hard drive (system boot) corrupted when Software Update hung. Since I'm on the Apple Protection Plan I contacted technical support. They first tried to recover using my Time Machine backups. That failed, and we found that the backup files were corrupted. I was passed to a Senior Technician. When he learned that I also use Carbon Copy Cloner (currently version 3.4.4) he told me that Apple has been getting a lot of complaints that CCC corrupts Time Machine backup files. When I asked further, he advised that this is a relatively recent development, over the past several iterations of System X.
I tried searching for any existing discussions covering this problem, but did not find anything on point. Does anyone know anything else about this issue? Is it related to Time Machine trying to run while CCC is making a clone? Would turning Time Machine off during CCC operations avoid the problem? Does the new version of CCC (3.5.1) correct the problem?
Thanks. Randy
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.5), (mid 2011); 2.7GHz i7; 8GB RAM