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SAV and TimeMachine

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I installed the SAV for Mac today.

After installation, I made a local drive scan, and It found 4 threats.

I deleted the infected files.

After a while, I got alert from SAV that it denied access to the files, which had been deleted but still in my TimeMachine backup.

Although everything seems alright now, SAV interfered TimeMachine's operation.

Will this corrupt my TimeMachine backup?

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    Anecdotal hints of bad interactions between SAV and TM are floating around. I documented mine (loss of 19 months of TM backup data) pretty extensively at http://recoveringphysicist.com/17 and reached out to Graham Cluley for any comments, then updated the blog post with his observations. Bottom line: Sophos believes they are playing nicely with TM and could not be the cause of data loss there. But in my experience TM is quite fragile -- great when it works but easy to mess up. (I wrote about another mysterious TM failure at http://recoveringphysicist.com/15/ .)

    [Note added 2010-11-12, 16:15 Z] Word from Sophos that they are still investigating my data loss and may have something to post soon on the forum.

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    Anecdotal hints of bad interactions between SAV and TM are floating around. I documented mine (loss of 19 months of TM backup data) pretty extensively at http://recoveringphysicist.com/17 and reached out to Graham Cluley for any comments, then updated the blog post with his observations. Bottom line: Sophos believes they are playing nicely with TM and could not be the cause of data loss there. But in my experience TM is quite fragile -- great when it works but easy to mess up. (I wrote about another mysterious TM failure at http://recoveringphysicist.com/15/ .)

    [Note added 2010-11-12, 16:15 Z] Word from Sophos that they are still investigating my data loss and may have something to post soon on the forum.

    :1000735
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