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We recently put out a call for topics you‘d like to learn more about and one of the most popular suggestions was how to verify a Time Machine backup. After all, you‘ve gone to all the trouble to create such a backup, it would be nice to know if it works. It turns out that there‘s not a completely clear-cut answer to this one. Let me explain.</p><p>
I‘ll open the Time Machine preference and ensure that the Time Machine menu appears in the menubar. I‘ll then hold down the Option key and click on this menu and, look at that, there‘s a Verify Backups command. But wait, it‘s grayed out.</p><p>
It‘s grayed out because this is a Time Machine backup housed on a drive connected directly to my Mac. This command works only for networked Time Machine backups—either backups on an Apple Time Capsule, or a networked drive on another Mac or an NAS.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2873556/how-to-verify-a-time-machine-backup.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to verify a Time Machine backup
