Since it's a backup only, and presuming that you haven't needed to retrieve anything from it and don't need to now, I'd disconnect it, get another drive, and create a new Time Machine backup. Then wipe this drive, connect it up, and have it run as a second Time Machine backup. If it fails completely, you're done. Otherwise, you have a second drive to use as you see fit.
I've had this happen from time to time. Hard drives are cheap these days: use until they fail, then move on to the next one. There's no software I've ever seen that can fix a broken volume file structure without risking the contents of the drive anyway. I have two 1T notebook class drives set up just this way for my Time Machine backup … I created a new one in December, wiped and recreated a new one on the second drive in May. I only need 1T backup drives because I only run Time Machine on my main 1T system drive, and don't have it back up my Lightroom catalog folders. Those are backed up by a separate system onto working and archive drives whenever I touch them, along with the original image files. G — The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. > On Jul 1, 2017, at 7:31 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Toshiba 4TB external drive in an OWC housing that has my Time > Machine backup on it (1.8TB so far). > > When I sat down yesterday, it would not mount. Eventually it did, and I ran > Disk Utility, which gave me this message: > > > Invalid name for directory inode (id=5966587) > (it should be dir_5966587 instead of temp5966587) > Incorrect number of directory hard links > The volume Huge Ext HD could not be verified completely. > File system check exit code is 8. > Updating boot support partitions for the volume as > File system verify or repair failed. > Operation failed… > > Is there a way to repair the drive without erasing it? I’d have to buy > another drive to hold the data, and I have no other use for one. > > Can the drive be repaired at all, or is it toast? > > Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
