Minor update to version 2 for recent macOS backing up using Time Machine to APFS. This lets you reduce the number of error messages shown.
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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.
Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong.
What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list.
Two different errors when backing up two different Macs, a recursive RTFD document, and APFS path length limits. But what’s this about FileProvider?
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.
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