I was on vacation and upon return noticed that my periodical backups hadn't been running since the 21st of Jan. I back up data using Time Machine, to a LaCie 750GB drive.
I hadn't restarted the iMac in awhile (to which the drive is attached), so I restarted it...that didn't get it working. I also restarted the drive itself...no resolution either.
I opened up Disk Utility and it saw the drive, so now I'm running a "verify disk" and "repair". I'm hoping this fixes the issue, but I'm now wary, as it's taking quite a while, but this is probably due to the size of the drive. Also, maybe there's a ton of errors? I don't know.
I'd hate to lose the data on this drive. Perhaps I need to think of some type of backup procedure of the backup drive (maybe backing it up every six months or so).
It might be time to look at a different solution.
EDIT: Yeah... Disk Utility couldn't repair the partition, so I had to erase it to get it working again. It is fine now, but I think I'm going to need to periodically back up the back-up drive. Lost a LOT of pictures and such. I'm actually thinking on using a cloud-based storage solution.
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