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Users of Time Machine on an external drive, do you always “eject” before unplugging? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What the title says. Getting tiresome.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let me ask you this: why would you think you shouldn’t have to? It’s an external drive like any other. The file system has to be quiesced and unmoved cleanly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's 2023. Would it be too outlandish to hope or dream that information systems have reached a state where resilience and self-repair make up for sudden and impromptu hardware disconnects?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well in theory journaling file systems should be able to repair but nothing is perfect. Do you really want to gamble with a backup?