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Daniel Cohen
Sep 15, 2012, 3:19:20 PM9/15/12
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I was trying to clone my Time Machine backup onto a new external drive.
Best advice seemed to be to use Disk Utility's Restore command.
But after going a fair way through the process, I got the message
"Cannot restore. Input/output error".
Presumably this means a problem on either the drive that has been used
for TM backup r the new drive. Is there any way to work out where the
problem is?
Both drives are partitioned, and copying between the other partitions
seems fine.
I must admit that I thought that Restore did a block-level copy, and
that this meant that file corruption (if any) would not prevent copying.
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Best advice seemed to be to use Disk Utility's Restore command.
But after going a fair way through the process, I got the message
"Cannot restore. Input/output error".
Presumably this means a problem on either the drive that has been used
for TM backup r the new drive. Is there any way to work out where the
problem is?
Both drives are partitioned, and copying between the other partitions
seems fine.
I must admit that I thought that Restore did a block-level copy, and
that this meant that file corruption (if any) would not prevent copying.
--
<http://www.decohen.com>
The Labyrinth of the Heart: Changed Myths for Changing Lives
book and e-book <http://www.decohen.com/labyrinth>
Send e-mail to the Reply-To address, not the From address.
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