Important update for all users, which addresses several bugs in setting the maximum size of sparse bundles.
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How to set the total size, and band size, for your sparse bundles, with calculation of the critical band size.
Time Machine can’t make backups to a disk formatted in APFS. Oh yes it can – and here’s how you can do it too.
Is it better to make sparse bundles ‘snug’, sizing them so that they don’t have as much free space? What if you then need to resize them?
They readily grow in size up to their maximum. But getting them to shrink when contents are reduced isn’t as easy.
How to check whether the files in a Time Machine backup are intact and uncorrupted. Only what do you do with the results?
Selecting a RAID level to preserve file integrity can be confusing. Here’s a guide, complete with the ifs and buts.
How your Mac’s security and privacy systems can cause duplicate copies of files to be written to your backups.
Do changing permissions or an extended attribute also alter a file’s modification date?
Because of its glorious past, Apple is about the future. But just now we need our past, with the future looking so uncertain.
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