Implementing a more efficient backup strategy than simply turning Time Machine on and hoping.
Time Machine
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?
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
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?
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