hoakley May 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

T2M2 now timestamps its analyses in version 0.6b1

A new beta-test version of The Time Machine Mechanic, T2M2, now adds a detailed timestamp at the top of its analysis report.

The latest release is available from Downloads above.

The only change made in this version is to add a first line to the text report displayed and saved which reads something like:
Analysis for 2 hours from 2017-05-28 11:23:08 +0000 to 2017-05-28 13:23:08 +0000:

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This gives the number of hours set for analysis, together with the dates and times of the start and end of that period.

I hope that you find this useful.

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xz4gb8 on May 29, 2017 at 2:34 pm

(this may be redundant – clicking Post Comment took me to a login screen again)

Nicely Done.

When sorting saved T2M2 data, the absolute time of data capture is of more interest than capture duration. In addition, the location of start and end times in the current output varies with the data collection interval. The following change is intended to improve both direct cognition and machine sorting of displayed and saved data.

”Analysis for 2 hours from 2017-05-29 12:03:07 +0000 to 2017-05-29 14:03:07 +0000:”
could be re-ordered as
”Analysis from 2017-05-29 12:03:07 +0000 to 2017-05-29 14:03:07 +0000 for 2 hours:”
or
”Analysis from 2017-05-29 12:03:07 +0000 to 2017-05-29 14:03:07 +0000 (2 hours):”

A related suggestion is to use this string as the basis for the default name for a new T2M2 output file. ISO 8601 conformant suggestions include:
“T2M2 2017-05-29 120307” (no colons in macOS file names)
“T2M2 20170529T120307”
“T2M2-20170529T120307” (single sortable token)

For extra credit, consider a preference setting to display all times using the current timezone. Of course, an “Are you sure” dialog noting that the displayed times would then not match Console or Consolation displays.

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  hoakley on May 29, 2017 at 2:41 pm
  
  OK – will do the first two in the next release, which should be a 1.0 final release candidate, I hope.
  I’m wary about the display of times in a format other than that used by the logs – using locales is quite fraught, and easy to get seriously confused. Let me think about that one in slower time, please.
  Howard.
  
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xz4gb8 on May 29, 2017 at 2:40 pm

While testing 0.6b1 a RED indication was accompanied by
No error messages found.
Running check on scheduling system (CTS and DAS).
DAS appears to have stopped rescoring activities over the last 90 minutes.
Running CTS check next.
CTS has not been told to run a backup in the last 90 minutes. Scheduling may have stopped.
Consider restarting your Mac.

Without T2M2, I would not have noticed.

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  hoakley on May 29, 2017 at 2:44 pm
  
  Thank you – I had exactly the same yesterday too, although I thought that backups had become irregular. I also have a post for the morning which delves into this in more detail, and its other implications. Backups are not the only service which suffers when this happens.
  Howard.
  
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Jack_Hennety on June 1, 2017 at 7:05 pm

This is a great tool – thanks so much for dedicating the time to it. I’m hoping it will help me troubleshoot the TM backup issues I’ve been having on an ongoing basis (Apple support admitted to me there are known issues with backups in Sierra – I’m hopeful they’ll be fixed with its successor).

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  hoakley on June 1, 2017 at 7:07 pm
  
  It’s my pleasure – I use it myself! There’s another new version coming shortly, with a couple of small tweaks.
  Howard.
  
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