With extensive refactoring in the code to display logs extracts, this update should be faster and require less memory on all supported versions of macOS.
macOS 11
How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.
Provided it doesn’t have to back up large folders containing many small files, Time Machine backing up to APFS on a network share works well.
The first full backup is performed as a manual backup, and largely occurs in file-by-file copying from source to the backup store. It is more efficient than to HFS+, but differences could be less than 10%.
Addresses problems with time formatting, so you should now be able to use Ulbow with a Buddhist calendar, 12-hour clock, set to summer time in Mongolia.
Should now be fully compatible with all locales, calendars, and with both 12- and 24-hour clocks.
Before Apple added T2 chips to Intel Macs, external boot disks were valuable for many users. How has that fared since?
A summary of the known benefits and current limitations of Time Machine backups to APFS, with links to more detailed accounts.
When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.
Does Big Sur’s Time Machine preserve sparse files and clones when backing up to APFS volumes?
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