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Q: strange time machine behavior

    This is not a complaint.

    About once a week, I get a message that a time machine backup failed.  I've able to fix the problem by restarting the system.

    About 4 days ago, I got a time backup failure message. I restarted the system, but "Back Up Now" failed.  I thought the time machine drive was gone and needed to be replaced.

    Then, miraculously, time machine started working!  With new backups being done.

    Two sets of questions:

    1.  Has anyone else seen this happen?  If so, what ended up happening?

    2.  Any advice?  I've never used time machine to recover a version of a file I've trashed, only to do a full system restore after I had a system failure.

    Thanks.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Jun 17, 2016 2:27 PM

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