Time Machine archive: safe way to test it's OK?

[midwich]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Well, you could certainly just point to it with Time Machine and see when your oldest backup is, for example... but if the copy was successful I'm pretty sure it's just fine.

Thanks for this! I also found that if you right-click the Time Machine symbol in the dock there's a 'Browse other Time Machine disks..' option, which worked fine for me, so the smart copy is obviously fine.

One thing - going by the flashing lights on the two drives, to get back to viewing your main Time Machine drive you have to go back to 'Browse other Time Machine disks..' and actively select it. Counterintuitive, at least to me, so worth mentioning.

Anyway, thanks again!