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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?

:1000303


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    At separating out discussion of Time Machine environments (was: My review of SAV Mac HE & 4 issues): 

    grahamperrin wrote:

    Alphaman wrote:
    • … My TM disk resides on a network server …

    … Time Machine backup … sparsebundle is a complex combination of data and metadata …

    … Selectively deleting old backups from TM is not the expected failure mode of how such a program would corrupt your backup.  You would much more likely see what the good doctor saw in his blog post -- a complete loss of ALL your TM.

    Time Machine will prune your backup.  SAV doesn't have the intelligence to do such.

    All true to the best of my knowledge, but I can think of at least three different Time Machine destination/target environments — one of which does not involve a .sparsebundle — and an obscure bug (not yet reported in the Home Edition area) that causes a volume unrelated to TM to be unexpectedly ejected — so I think it'll be prudent to separate the SAV versus TM puzzles into a separate topic. 

    :1000749
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    At separating out discussion of Time Machine environments (was: My review of SAV Mac HE & 4 issues): 

    grahamperrin wrote:

    Alphaman wrote:
    • … My TM disk resides on a network server …

    … Time Machine backup … sparsebundle is a complex combination of data and metadata …

    … Selectively deleting old backups from TM is not the expected failure mode of how such a program would corrupt your backup.  You would much more likely see what the good doctor saw in his blog post -- a complete loss of ALL your TM.

    Time Machine will prune your backup.  SAV doesn't have the intelligence to do such.

    All true to the best of my knowledge, but I can think of at least three different Time Machine destination/target environments — one of which does not involve a .sparsebundle — and an obscure bug (not yet reported in the Home Edition area) that causes a volume unrelated to TM to be unexpectedly ejected — so I think it'll be prudent to separate the SAV versus TM puzzles into a separate topic. 

    :1000749
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