Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.
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How running a background task takes a tiny fraction of second, although the task itself takes seconds or minutes, and why it’s run on E cores.
How macOS schedules tasks like making automatic Time Machine backups, from property list to transactions between DAS and CTS.
The story of how Mac OS X went from cron, to launchd, and ended up with Duet Activity Scheduler, to schedule background activities like backups.
Excessive CPU use by mds_stores is a common cause of sluggish performance. Explains what it does and what you can do bring it under control.
Has Ventura brought any relief from Disk Utility’s inability to run First Aid on Time Machine’s backups, and what about changes in Time Machine itself?
Copies, clones and backups are three different things. Here their differences are explained with examples from APFS and modern macOS.
If you plan to trade in or pass on your old Mac when you upgrade to a new one, there are pitfalls in ensuring you don’t lose any data, while ensuring your old Mac is completely wiped.
Browse log entries for a recent boot, examine the entries for Time Machine, and check for errors in another subsystem.
When Time Machine makes its backups to APFS storage, just what can and can’t you do? How can you prevent large temporary files from stealing space on storage?
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