How can you tell what was backed up when Time Machine last ran a routine backup? Here’s one way to find out, and detailed info on its support files.
troubleshooting
From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.
What to do when there are problems with a backup, or you want to delete backups or their contents.
Are you worried about strange and serious problems occurring when you upgrade to Catalina? Here are strategies to prevent and deal with them.
Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.
Detailed log excerpts showing normal backups in 10.12 to 10.15, with some of the more common errors encountered.
New series looking at how TM works, what its problems are, what tools to use to diagnose those, and how to fix it.
What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.
Don’t the update buttons work in LockRattler? It’s probably because something is blocking outgoing traffic.
It’s actually even easier to browse the unified log and discover what is going wrong with a reproducible problem. Here’s how.
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