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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

Going beyond T2M2 with Mints: grokking Time Machine to APFS

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An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.

September 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Logs

Since macOS Sierra, the Unified log has been an unrivalled source of information about what’s going on in macOS. But access isn’t simple.

September 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.19 is now available

Intended to be the last version to support macOS 10.12 to 12, and backing up to HFS+ volumes, this contains small improvements particularly for Monterey.

September 9, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

T2M2 version 1.18 addresses date changes in Big Sur

Should now be fully compatible with all locales, calendars, and with both 12- and 24-hour clocks.

April 13, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine to APFS: How efficient are backups?

Does Big Sur’s Time Machine preserve sparse files and clones when backing up to APFS volumes?

April 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Bugs and problems in the log: updates for 6 apps

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Consolation, Ulbow, Mints, T2M2, Cirrus and Taccy all updated to cope with increasing complexity and unreliability of the unified log.

April 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Big Sur can prevent Ulbow, Mints and T2M2 from browsing its log

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Big Sur has recently introduced a bug which can change the format of log datestamps, which can break Ulbow, Mints and T2M2. Here’s how to fix it.

April 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

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