For the last two days, I come home to a screen with the message,
“Time Machine Error
Unable to complete the backup, an error ocurred while copying files to the backup volume.”
No other details, no suggestions on fixes, no indication if this means all backups are trashed, or just the most recent.
But it gets better; turns out this is a known issue, hence the reason Apple dis-recommends using Time Machine as a backup, only as an archive.
Steve Jobs sucks again.
UPDATE: Still broken this morning, but of course, if you grep the syslog for backupd messages, it says that actually, the backup completed successfully. I wonder who is telling thru truth. I sure know I wouldn’t trust any vital information to Time Machine, if I were you.
Tags: applesucks, incompetence, macsucks, timemachinesucks