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Time Capsule

Backing up to network storage: checks and balances

Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.

February 1, 2023 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

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

MacSysAdmins presentation on Time Machine: slides

Complete slides analysing the history of Time Machine from first release to backing up to APFS in Big Sur, with detailed diagrams.

October 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine presentation at MacSysAdmin

Links to my presentation, and to a selection of useful articles about Time Machine backups to APFS, and more.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Looking back in time at backing up with Time Machine

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From Apple’s basic Backup to your iDisk, through the first version of Time Machine in 2007, to Time Machine to APFS in Big Sur.

September 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time has run out on Time Capsules

Most hard disks become increasingly likely to fail after 3 years. All Time Capsules are now in that zone, and should either be replaced or have their hard disks replaced.

July 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Hardware legacies

Content Caching server originated in 2005, as a feature in Mac OS X Server, which sold Xserves. Time Machine came in 2007, to support Time Capsules. Those legacies are so different, though.

June 20, 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

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