#timemachine

Every so often, when my laptop runs out of battery during a backup, I receive the following: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”

Every so often, when my laptop runs out of battery during a backup, I receive the following: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”

Unfortunately, it appears that Time Machine will sometimes get upset if you backup a symlink to a directory, convert the symlink back to a real directory, and then try to backup again.

Unfortunately, it appears that Time Machine will sometimes get upset if you backup a symlink to a directory, convert the symlink back to a real directory, and then try to backup again.

"As someone who is often in a Terminal environment I become frustrated with the Time Machine GUI and found it totally inadequate for when I needed to quickly determine what had been backed up and what had changed. "

"Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use."