Document versions can be invaluable, being between Undo and your backups. But they’re also easy to lose. Here’s how to keep them.
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Time Machine seems to be the only backup system which also backs up the Versioning database on each volume. Is that useful though?
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?
Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.
If a Time Machine snapshot can’t be thinned, nothing warns you of the problem, and without Terminal or the log you can’t even find out.
What does your Mac get up to when you’re away from it? Mine was busy writing hundreds of thousands of entries in the log because of a couple of snapshots.
Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.
The three tools which Apple provides to control Time Machine are its System Preferences pane, the Time Machine […]
There’s a small selection of tools available which work with Time Machine, supplement it, or replace it altogether. […]
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