How your Mac’s security and privacy systems can cause duplicate copies of files to be written to your backups.
Time Machine
Do changing permissions or an extended attribute also alter a file’s modification date?
Time Machine supported Time Capsules, which generated revenue which was lost nearly 2 years ago. How could Apple replace it and fund further Time Machine development?
What happens if you can’t access your Mac or its local backups? That’s what offsite backups cover – and you need them however small your system might be.
Now is a good time to re-evaluate which version of macOS your Macs are running. In the next […]
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.
