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I'm glad it works for you, but I abandoned it due to unreliability. My experience has been that it works fine for some period of time and then the sparsebundle

by _jal 7y ago

I'm glad it works for you, but I abandoned it due to unreliability. My experience has been that it works fine for some period of time and then the sparsebundle will randomly break. MacOS claims it is corrupted, I have to jump through hoops to make it work again. I will note that I'm doing it over a network mount, not a local drive, and this is probably the source of the problem, but I never could resolve it. So I'm just back to rsync for specific directories. Which is fine, when this Mac dies, I'm moving to Linux.

chipotle_coyote 7y ago
It was never real good about backing up over a network except with hardware specifically designed to support that, like network routers that support Time Machine drives (or Apple's own Time Capsule). I don't know that I'd say my own experience with Time Machine is perfect, but it's generally done what I needed to do, and has actually saved my bacon a few times by letting me restore individual files back to specific versions easily -- something I'm not sure an rsync-based solution would really provide (e.g., versioning for everything).
WanderPanda 7y ago
> when this Mac dies, I'm moving to Linux. I‘ve said that many times and here I am, still working on a 2012 MBA refusing to die. But its performance is still fine anyways. Single core performance seems to only have about doubled since back then, so its not that much of a dealbreaker