Verifying backup to external drive

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Rob Suminsby

• December 26, 2015 23:43

I have connected a 2TB externally powered HD to my Vault 2 for backup, and it appears the backup is complete. However, when I plug the external HD into my MacBook to verify the backup was successful, the MacBook is unable to read the hard drive.  I assume this is due to proprietary formatting?  How do I verify that everything has been backed up successfully?

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  Kyle F. - BluOS Support Specialist

  • December 29, 2015 16:54

  Hi Rob,

  The backup process for an external on the Vault formats the External to a EXT4 Linux Format that is meant to be read by the Vault OR a Linux OS only.

  Regarding other ways to check the backup,there may be third party tools that someone has created for situations like this, we have no recommendations for this, apologies...

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  Peter Swanson

  • May 28, 2018 09:51

  I think there should be a much clearer notification that a backup has been successful.

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  Kopp

  • August 04, 2019 16:07

  Same question again, how can I check the Backup Integrity - a backup that has no integrity check is quite worthless - could you give some explanation on that,

  thx, Dominik

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