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Time Machine
Making backups of carefully-selected active folders ever hour using ChronoSync, and with Time Machine.
Implementing a more efficient backup strategy than simply turning Time Machine on and hoping.
Do you have VMs or other large files, and use Time Machine for backups? Here’s how to make those backups quicker and more compact.
One small change: you no longer need to press Tab or Enter to set the time period.
Changing to an SSD RAID system forced me to rethink what I needed to back up and when, rather than just leaving to Time Machine.
Now collects log entries reporting progress and rates of transfer during a backup, and giving info on what is slowing them down.
How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.
Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?
Time Machine seems to be the only backup system which also backs up the Versioning database on each volume. Is that useful though?
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