Analysis of T2M2’s report from rotating Time Machine backups, including the first full backup made to a NAS.
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How to read T2M2’s report on your Time Machine backups, interpret the results, and discover where any problems are occurring.
T2M2 is nearly 7 years old, and has already found at least two bugs in Time Machine. Here’s why it’s so hard to get it to work perfectly with each version of macOS.
For Big Sur and later, specifically tailored to provide full analysis and troubleshooting of hourly Time Machine backups to APFS in Sonoma.
How to back up all your iCloud Drive documents, minimise snapshot size, keep integrity checks in important files, and more.
What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list.
How well can Time Machine back up other volumes, such as those on external drives? Can it restore them when the original disk fails or goes missing?
How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure.
How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.
APFS checks file system metadata, not file data. Consistency Scan has gone missing, verifying checksums doesn’t appear to verify data, and Verify Integrity seems to do something altogether different.