Users of Time Machine on an external drive, do you always “eject” before unplugging? - eviltoast

What the title says. Getting tiresome.

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    1 year ago

    Let me ask you this: why would you think you shouldn’t have to? It’s an external drive like any other. The file system has to be quiesced and unmoved cleanly.

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      1 year ago

      It’s 2023. Would it be too outlandish to hope or dream that information systems have reached a state where resilience and self-repair make up for sudden and impromptu hardware disconnects?

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        1 year ago

        Well in theory journaling file systems should be able to repair but nothing is perfect. Do you really want to gamble with a backup?