Here’s what it looks like:
Latest backup failed, I see. So what’s the latest backup that actually worked? You can’t tell here. And what failed? You can’t tell that, either.
“Click that red icon!” you might think. Here’s what that does:
That’s not very helpful. It could at least tell me if the error occurred when reading, writing or in internal logic. That’d be a start.
There’s a little more information in the console log, of course. What actually failed? It looks like Time Machine tripped on an email. Nothing special about that email that I can see. But how many end users are going to look in there?
Here’s hoping 10.5.1 fixes a few things about Time Machine.
hey, at least you got a notice at all. i just had to make a bare metal restore, and it turns out that some but not all of my files are actually 3 days old instead of the 8 hours that they should have been. wouldn’t have been a big deal if there wasn’t a deadline today.
i’m just about done with this. leopard is horrible.
The way I look at this is simple: Almost everything in Leopard is an improvement, except the dock, stacks and menu bar. Sure, Time Machine is unreliable, but Tiger didn’t have Time Machine at all. So I might as well use Leopard as Tiger.