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Time Machine

Last Week on My Mac: Snapshot hostages

How to repair a snapshot with an error when it’s one of your backups on a hard disk? Currently this seems impossible, putting all those backups at risk.

November 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

How should you check an APFS backup store?

When your backups are stored on hard disks, even though they may use APFS, it’s important to check they’re sound. How to do better than Disk Utility.

November 18, 2021 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

Backing up to network storage in Big Sur and beyond

Tackles decisions and problems, including whether to use APFS in the backup sparsebundle, AFP or SMB, and configuration.

October 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey: migrating Time Machine backups

Can you migrate your old backups from HFS+ to APFS format? What can slow your backups down? Can you still use AFP, and what about restoring the system?

October 7, 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

How to undelete a file simply

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How to recover a deleted app or document without having to restore from your Time Machine backup. Simple steps and no use of Terminal.

September 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Going beyond T2M2 with Mints: grokking Time Machine to APFS

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An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.

September 29, 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

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