Each report on your Time Machine backups now comes with a detailed timestamp in this new version.
diagnosis
Conventional log analysis gets precious little from Sierra’s unified log. Automated analysis has much greater potential. Will Apple head in this direction too?
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.
And the most important fix: the colours of the traffic light indicator are better.
A full explanation of everything that T2M2 analyses and reports, with practical tips on how to interpret and fix.
How scheduling concurrent and background tasks using XPC Activity works, and compares with alternatives such as NSBackgroundActivityScheduler.
Whether you just want to check that Time Machine is backing up properly, or want to diagnose a suspected problem, this is the tool.
Transferring a decision-making guide from a quick flowchart into Tinderbox notes.
When part of the mechanism which schedules and dispatches Time Machine backups fails, those backups become irregular. Here it is shown in a clear diagram.
