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Using macOS versions beyond local volumes

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It’s all too easy to lose all previous versions of a document: one false move to another volume, to iCloud, or shared over a network and they’ve gone. How can you preserve them?

August 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Which NAS?

Is a NAS system worth considering for your backups? Could one replace your existing Time Capsule? Here’s additional information to help you decide.

March 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Has Time Machine slowed?

Since Catalina, reports of Time Machine backups slowing to a crawl have become common, but the reasons are unclear. It’s time for Apple to inform us.

January 9, 2022 Macs, Technology

A strategy for tackling NAS problems

Have you got problems backing up to your NAS? Here is a series of four simple tests to perform to give clear insights and help you tune its performance.

December 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Is backing up to networked storage improving?

Backing up using Time Machine over Gigabit Ethernet to another Mac providing shared backup storage in Monterey 12.1 delivered good performance of 35-43 MB/s.

December 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Improving the performance of Time Machine backups to network storage

A full Time Machine backup over SMB analysed in detail. This reveals that some of the measures reported in the log are likely to be inaccurate and misleading, and gives suggestions for improving performance.

October 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Backing up to network storage in Big Sur and beyond

Tackles decisions and problems, including whether to use APFS in the backup sparsebundle, AFP or SMB, and configuration.

October 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: When a network backup goes wrong

With a new version of Xcode, I knew that my network backup would take several hours. Then, as it neared its conclusion, disaster struck: the router reset itself and the network share vanished.

May 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Death by SMB

Slow performance when backing up to a network share is mainly down to SMB. Without its improvement, Time Machine over a network is still dead in the water.

April 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Protecting folders and volumes is too blunt

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The list of apps in my Files and Folders list grows steadily as they need to access my external SSD. And there’s nothing I can do about that.

January 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

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