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Is there a way to test if TimeMachine backups are uncorrupted? I backup using TimeMachine as well but as far as I can tell there is no way to verify a backup. I’m concerned that at some point my backup will get corrupted and I won’t know why. This happened to my iPhone backup to iTunes, luckily I had a iCloud backup.

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It seems to be possible to check the integrity on the command line.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/09/how-to-check-the-integri...

Restore it?

Why on earth would I restore an image back into my MacBook if I don’t know if it’s corrupt?

Use another computer or partition, of course.

Restore it in a VM.

Why not have functionality to check to see if the backups are readable? Instead of forcing users to spin up a vm which most can’t, and do testing etc. seems like a simple ask. Most credible backup solutions do this.

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