Personal Backup users can see the above-mentioned information in the main window of the application. The source data is OK, as well as the media that data sits on and your backup settings all check out. If you backup to a Time Capsule or other kind of network share, the Time Machine menu bar icon gives you a handy verification option. You can access it by clicking the icon and holding down the Option key.
Depending on the speed of your network and the size of your backup, the verification can take a long time. If everything is OK, Time Machine will carry on as usual after the verification has finished.
However, if an issue is found, Time Machine will let you know. Unfortunately, this type of verification with Time Machine only works on network drives, not on drives directly connected to your Mac. The most reliable way to verify your backed up data is in good shape is by simply restoring it. For other backups, like those made with Personal Backup, you can browse the backup data through the Finder, pick a random file and just drag that back to your desktop.
Once a file is restored, open it to see if there are any issues, and then repeat the process with different files from different time periods.
Of course, picking a few random files to test the backup is more than most people do, but this method still leaves a lot of data untouched and untested.
Therefore, the most reliable way to verify a backup is to restore the whole thing. This is, of course, a very time consuming task and takes some preparing, but depending on how important your data is, it is a task that needs to be done every so often. If your backup is a full drive clone, like those you can make with Personal Backup, you can boot from the clone and see if the macOS boots, applications launch, and that your important files open as expected.
If your backup does not include the full macOS, only select files and folders, the only way to verify all that data is to restore all of it. You can use another drive or partition that has enough space and copy all the backup data to it. If there is damage or corruption, the data copy will usually fail with an error message. Once the backup data has been restored you can open your most important files to check for any issues. Backup is underway Latest backup Learn more Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months.
The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full. The first backup might take a long time , but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway.
Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster. To stop excluding an item, such as an external hard drive, select the item and click the remove — button. If you back up to multiple disks, you can press and hold the Option key, then choose Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu. Learn about other ways to back up and restore files.
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