Problem with sparseimage backup: LOSS OF DATA

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Thanks for the fast reply.

Originally Posted by dnanian

Did you have any problems when you performed the operation, on the drive, ejecting, etc? Something must have happened to it. Perhaps it's the FireWire enclosure, since everything worked properly until you placed the drive into it?

Absolutely nothing happened. I am an experience mac user, and made sure to unmount the volume before removing the FireWire drive. The enclosure worked fine before and continues to work fine. The next logical step would be to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it directly inside a PowerMac (unfortunately, I do not have such a machine now).

I feel though that this would not work.

Having the files in a sparseimage severely limits the file recovery options (i.e., DiskWarrior is useless). It seems to me that sparseimages are not reliable in OS X.