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The author keeps saying serious bugs and a thing as being infeasible when they actually mean they don't like the first back-up taking eight hours when they paid

The author keeps saying serious bugs and a thing as being infeasible when they actually mean they don't like the first back-up taking eight hours when they paid so much for their storage devices. I have never waited for the first backup in Time Machine because it always happens when I am asleep. They probably take several hours. Nothing to see here, esp. since Time Machine is a totally end-user low-touch, simplistic service that, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the last truly well-engineered bits of user experience to come out of Apple. Who ever said it was fast?

chadcmulligan 7y ago
Time machine is wonderful in my opinion - I've been using it a bit lately to restore files here and there, there's nothing like it on any other platform afaik. Pick a file, hit enter time machine, wait a bit (I still have a time capsule, that I'll miss dearly if it goes), scroll through the history, and restore your file, its so easy. It is the most advanced backup system I've ever used. Edit: I think the really great thing about time machine/capsule is I don't know how it works, it's like a toaster, I plugged it in, clicked a couple of things on my Mac years ago and it still works, even after 3 Macs. I remember the days of typing tar cvf > /dev/rmt0 or some such and its a miracle in comparison.
- gumby 7y ago
  > I still have a time capsule, that I'll miss dearly if it goes Many consumer NAS devices can act as time capsules so you’ll be able to continue.
  - chadcmulligan 7y ago
    Oh yes thanks, I'm aware, but it won't be as easy as the Time Capsule I'm sure.
    - gumby 7y ago
      In my experience you just use the config tool to tell the NAS to be a time machine server and then point your Mac at the NAS same as you would the time capsule. Not bad, actually!
      - chadcmulligan 7y ago
        > you just use the config tool yah, and then I'll probably have to reformat the drives because they're ntfs or something, oh but the drivers aren't compatible, just go and download the latest, oh they don't work with this version of the OS, maybe try a different distro, and so on. Sigh, I like the apple way.

chadcmulligan 7y ago

Time machine is wonderful in my opinion - I've been using it a bit lately to restore files here and there, there's nothing like it on any other platform afaik. Pick a file, hit enter time machine, wait a bit (I still have a time capsule, that I'll miss dearly if it goes), scroll through the history, and restore your file, its so easy. It is the most advanced backup system I've ever used. Edit: I think the really great thing about time machine/capsule is I don't know how it works, it's like a toaster, I plugged it in, clicked a couple of things on my Mac years ago and it still works, even after 3 Macs. I remember the days of typing tar cvf > /dev/rmt0 or some such and its a miracle in comparison.

gumby 7y ago
> I still have a time capsule, that I'll miss dearly if it goes Many consumer NAS devices can act as time capsules so you’ll be able to continue.
- chadcmulligan 7y ago
  Oh yes thanks, I'm aware, but it won't be as easy as the Time Capsule I'm sure.
  - gumby 7y ago
    In my experience you just use the config tool to tell the NAS to be a time machine server and then point your Mac at the NAS same as you would the time capsule. Not bad, actually!
    - chadcmulligan 7y ago
      > you just use the config tool yah, and then I'll probably have to reformat the drives because they're ntfs or something, oh but the drivers aren't compatible, just go and download the latest, oh they don't work with this version of the OS, maybe try a different distro, and so on. Sigh, I like the apple way.