ser_rhaegar
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That's the first step to recover. If it fails, use your replicated copy of offsite backups from FreeNAS. But I find it hard to believe that each snapshot would run during a TimeMachine backup for the entirety of your snapshot retention period.That's a backup strategy? What if that one is also bad, or doesn't include the last two hours of work that you just lost?
I have to say, my mind is officially boggled right now. Four of the people on this thread alone have had problems at some point with Time Machine over AFP, and three of them still trust it.
For the record, I think Time Machine is wonderful, and I frequently recommend it for onsite backup to direct-attached storage.
Also it isn't a backup if you don't test it. You should know if your snapshots, replicated copy or offsite copy are bad before timemachine takes a crap. If you don't, your backup strategy is flawed. And at minimum you should have a copy offsite.
I've had issues and I've recovered each time using snapshots from the same day. I run snapshots 3 times a day, 6 hours apart. My macs which run timemachine are not on 24/7. There is always a snapshot outside of the timemachine interval for each day in my setup.