Major Problem - My HD crashed and TC backup is 8 weeks old

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Major Problem - My HD crashed and TC backup is 8 weeks old

I have an iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. My hard drive crashed a week ago. Grey screen. I had it replaced at a Mac authorized service dealer but they could not recover data. I have a Time Capsule running as my Wifi Router on the network and it was supposed to be doing backups of this machine. With the new drive I said 'Restore from Backup'. First, most of my folders are not accessible due to permission issues. I'm researching that separately. The bigger issue is I went into the Star Wars screen on Time Machine and my last backup is November 1, 2013! That means it doesn't have all my Christmas pictures, home videos, anything I've worked on in the last few months! How in the world could this be? Why would it stop? Am I reading this right? On the Star Wars screen I am scrolling all the way to first one. It says "Now" in the lower left and the date just above that is November 1, 2013. How do I verify that my TC does not have a more recent backup than that? And how the **** did this happen that it quit doing backups 3 months ago?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Mar 7, 2014 3:25 AM

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LaPastenague

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Mar 7, 2014 4:35 PM in response to Jason1001

TM does have issues.. sadly unless you keep pretty careful track of it.. you can loose information..

Indeed I recommend now people do not trust TM alone.. get a real disk cloner.. eg CCC and use it to make a bootable clone of your computer.. then you can be sure you are actually not missing files.

How to recover extra stuff.

Mount the sparsebundle in finder and see what is available.

See Pondini,

http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Q14-17 .. but read particularly Q15

http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Fixing permissions.

E10

You should glance through section E as it covers restore issues.

You can also do a verify of the sparsebundle.. See A5.

Good luck.. it is a nasty learning experience.. backups cannot be relied on.. unless you test them.

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