A summary of the known benefits and current limitations of Time Machine backups to APFS, with links to more detailed accounts.
ChronoSync
Do changing permissions or an extended attribute also alter a file’s modification date?
Making backups of carefully-selected active folders ever hour using ChronoSync, and with Time Machine.
Implementing a more efficient backup strategy than simply turning Time Machine on and hoping.
Changing to an SSD RAID system forced me to rethink what I needed to back up and when, rather than just leaving to Time Machine.
Time Machine seems to be the only backup system which also backs up the Versioning database on each volume. Is that useful though?
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?