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Last Week on My Mac: Catching up with Time Machine

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T2M2 is nearly 7 years old, and has already found at least two bugs in Time Machine. Here’s why it’s so hard to get it to work perfectly with each version of macOS.

January 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to check backing up

How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.

November 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

How does Time Machine make a backup?

Detailed account from the decision to start making an automatic backup to its final reporting and completion, for Ventura 13.2.1 to local storage.

March 1, 2023 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

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

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