> … so I’ve been kind of biting my tongue on this thread because “works fine for me” is not interesting or helpful, but: it’s been working great for me since it was introduced in 2007.
Is immediately contradicted by this
> Periodically a disk will get flaky or go bad, maybe once every 2-3 years. I’ll erase the drive and start over. I always have two backups running so there’s never danger of being completely unprotected.
Having to periodically erase the drive and start over is one of the problems we’re talking about.
In my experience, restoring files gets flakey before it reaches the point of having obvious backup failures so you may be experience more problems than you know about if this is happening periodically.
> … so I’ve been kind of biting my tongue on this thread because “works fine for me” is not interesting or helpful, but: it’s been working great for me since it was introduced in 2007.
Is immediately contradicted by this
> Periodically a disk will get flaky or go bad, maybe once every 2-3 years. I’ll erase the drive and start over. I always have two backups running so there’s never danger of being completely unprotected.
Having to periodically erase the drive and start over is one of the problems we’re talking about.
In my experience, restoring files gets flakey before it reaches the point of having obvious backup failures so you may be experience more problems than you know about if this is happening periodically.