Time Machine backups are but one of 70-80 background services which are run by macOS dispatching systems. Here’s a list of some of the others.
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When scheduled backups become irregular or stop, this affects much more than just Time Machine. This is what happens, and why you must restart.
Each report on your Time Machine backups now comes with a detailed timestamp in this new version.
This version allows you to open, browse, and analyse any .logarchive bundle, from a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or more. Ideal for forensic analysis.
Conventional log analysis gets precious little from Sierra’s unified log. Automated analysis has much greater potential. Will Apple head in this direction too?
How to run one-off backups, how to cancel automatic backups, and how to set your own backup schedules.
This completes the intended feature-set for the first release version: T2M2 can now make better backups too.
Adds a new set of analyses to discover the underlying cause of infrequent and irregular automatic backups.
A simple and elegant way to eliminate duplicates from an array of strings comes and goes as Swift 3.1 takes charge.
You can back up multiple volumes to multiple backups. Here’s how and why you might do these things.
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