When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
Time Machine
The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?
Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.
If a Time Machine snapshot can’t be thinned, nothing warns you of the problem, and without Terminal or the log you can’t even find out.
What does your Mac get up to when you’re away from it? Mine was busy writing hundreds of thousands of entries in the log because of a couple of snapshots.
Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.
Catches and issues with the 10.15.3 update – and good news on two important bugs which it fixed.
When restoring a Catalina system from Time Machine backups, this ‘new’ folder may appear. What should you do with it?
The three tools which Apple provides to control Time Machine are its System Preferences pane, the Time Machine […]
There’s a small selection of tools available which work with Time Machine, supplement it, or replace it altogether. […]
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