Time machine: "verifying backup" has been going on for days
I have an MBP that backs up to a 2 TB time capsule over wifi. For the last few days time machine window says: "verifying backup." The line is alive and seems to be moving. it is now ~4/5 full and was ~ 7/10 yesterday. So it does not appear to be hung up. I have about 350GB of data on my 500 GB hard drive. Mac OSX Lion. This has never happened before. I've had this system for almost three years, and this is the first time I've seen this happen.
I am keeping all my data on the cloud, so I am not too concerned about crashing but this makes me wonder if my Time Capsule is ok or, perhaps, I ahve a bug somewhere.
Advice is welcome.
FG
Start by having a look here...
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
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