... but your basic argument seems to be that you can't get your data when the backup has been corrupted? Well...duh.
Time machine is just a slick "Itunes" -type interface on a cumulative backup schema. There aren't any new technologies there, it's just "pretty". The file dependencies grow over time. Perhaps even more so in Apple boxes (maybe not a 1-for-1 dependency?). I don't know if they use data-deduplication (aka: putting all your eggs in one old basket).
Every now and again one should start from scratch and have a data backup built from current data, and not build on a leaning tower of 3-year old data backups on top of 5-year old data backups. After all, every type of storage media that I've ever heard of (other than perhaps stone tablets) eventually physically corrodes and loses data. Well duh (again). Sigh.
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