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2. Well, I have that, or something like that

Reply to fcorbitt (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:23 AM

Feb 2016

but it requires me to extract and rebuild (which I can do and have done, but it's a PITA and takes hours). I was hoping for something that could validate a backup. Apple doesn't validate backups until it attemps to use them (which may be too late). What's the point?

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