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APFS snapshots for Time Machine suck so much. They take up a ton of disk space and TM's GUI is horrible, it will just sit there syncing for forever with nonsens
by joshstrange 1y ago
APFS snapshots for Time Machine suck so much. They take up a ton of disk space and TM's GUI is horrible, it will just sit there syncing for forever with nonsensical time estimates. Then, once it finishes syncing, it will _eventually_ clean up those old snapshots. I've considered dropping TM completely because of this and sticking with just Backblaze and CarbonCopyCloner instead.
If I exclude my git directories (one of the most important things on my computer) then I really don't see the point of using TM at all with the other backups I do regularly.
- prerok 1y agoGenuinely curious... why do you see the need to back up git? Even if I don't want to push to a server, I use a different disk or USB as an additional remote in git and push to that. Although I do that only for financial data, so only done once a month so it's not too big a hassle.
- standard_indian 1y agoI have had good experience with Arq backup 7
- fragmede 1y agoYeah TM has its shortcomings. I went with Arq (non-affiliated) instead.
- greggsy 1y agoDespite its apparent opaqueness, TM is reasonably transparent for the everyday Mac user