Monday, January 17, 2011

Performing Mac data recovery when Time Machine corruption causes data loss

Data plays a very important part in today's techno savvy, computer driven business environment loss of data may occur to even the most secure and the safest Machine, what so ever the hardware and software configuration be.To handle this situation of data loss the Mac machine comes up with a unique utility "Time Machine" it prevents all the situation of data loss by taking a regular backup of all the data the backup takes place in according to predefined schedule it takes a backup of all internal and external storage devices this utility ensure absolute Mac recovery in all data loss cases.

Although, Time Machine application supports external hard disk to store backup data, but the drive must be formatted using HFS+ file system. In case external hard drive is using the MBR partition type, then you may encounter serious issues.

The External Mac OS X hard drives that are using MBR disk partition types do not accept over 10 GB of data from the Time Machine utility. Thus, if you use Time Machine to backup data on such disks, backup process may stop once the size approaches 10 GB. So you cannot use Time Machine backup to restore data from external hard drive in such situations and Mac recovery is required to sort out the problem. 

Resolution
It is essential to change the hard disk partition type to properly backup your valuable data on external Mac hard disk. It is possible by formatting the hard disk using HFS+ file system. Formatting is the complete solution to effectively fix all hard disk problems, but  it also removes the stored data.

In order to recover Mac files in such situations and perform data recovery Mac, you need to restore data from backup. The most recent data backup is the best
Mac data recovery method. However, if backup is either not updated or valid, you need to go for alternative Mac recovery solutions.