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Yh, and even they can't get it right. You lose connectivity once in a while and the only way to recover is to erase the backup and start over. I came here to s
by murphyslaw 3y ago
Yh, and even they can't get it right. You lose connectivity once in a while and the only way to recover is to erase the backup and start over.
I came here to see if someone had built a macos native time machine, but this looks like just another hack.
- climb_stealth 3y agoJust posted this in another comment as well. Ditch Time Machine altogether. Use Carbon Copy Cloner instead. It backs up straight to a network drive. Been using it with my Synology for years. Using Time Machine is playing russian roulette with backup data.
- krackers 3y agoIn the pre-APFS days, there was one difference in that using time machine would give you snapshots whereas CCC would only be a "dest like source" backup (safetynet would preserve deleted files, but not version modified ones). You could work around this with ZFS snapshots on the destination, but since it's not natively supported it's all a bit clunky. With APFS you get snapshots too, so the only real difference is the UI for restoring a snapshot. I do wish Apple would allow 3rd party applications to populate "versions", so the inbuilt UI could be used with other apps. It could even fit with their existing Finder extensions: it could bring together different versions of a file on cloud providers, local backups, etc., and present them in a unified UI.