How can I force a full time machine backup? I have several months of time machine history on my drive. I don't want to reformat the drive (and lose it all), but I do want to force a full backup. I know that there are files that got skipped (thanks for the tmutil compare trick), and I strongly suspect that there is garbage on the drive (I got buffer underrun errors at one point -- they went away after a power cycle, but I suspect that the bits on the backup don't match bits on the main disks).
Apple's engineers said that the disk's UUID is involved in determining a matching backup, and implied that if I could find a way to change that, it would work. I looked at "tmutil associatedisk", and I wonder if there's a way to use that. But they did not have a solution for a way to force a full backup without either selecting a new destination, or erasing the old destination. Anyone out there have a solution? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
