Comments on: Time Capsule: Using TimeMachineEditor to decrease the frequency of Time Machine backups

By: ssp

ssp — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:08:58 +0000

Sending the machine to sleep should not corrupt anything no matter what. The compuer knows it will go to sleep and applications get the opportunity to adjust to that (look at iTunes which stops playing compared to audio streams in web pages via Flash which don’t).

If there’s anything problematic about backups to a Time Capsule it should be that you lose power or your wireless network breaks down. And, frankly, if Apple didn’t make Time Capsule to handle those situations well, they simply failed at their job.

I’d say that corrupted disk images and kernel panics by trying to use them point in a single direction: a buggy OS.

By: rodneyw

rodneyw — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:42:55 +0000

G’day Pierre,

I found your blog via rixstep. I like the way that you think!

With regard to this issue – it bothers me that OS X has a kernel panic over a corrupted disk image at all! Why should there be a panic simply because a non-system disk is corrupted? Why have a “verify disk image” option if you can’t even do something with it?

I like the fact that OS X needs rebooting a lot less than any form of Windows that I have ever used. But why shouldn’t an Operating System be able to detect that there is a problem and handle it elegantly?

By: ThiH.

ThiH. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:20:06 +0000

You write:
“I have reasons to suspect that the damaged disk image on the Time Capsule was caused by the fact that I abruptly interrupted a TM backup in progress by closing my wife’s laptop while the screen was asleep.”

Actually, that does not (or should not) cause a corrupted backup. I have two mac laptops and one Time Capsule and all the time I randomly stop a backup by closing the laptop when I need to leave. That hasn’t caused any backup corruptions. I’ve owned the Time Capsule for at least 2 months now.