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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by thedanbob »

codeulike wrote: post #32

Time Machine is held in high regard for some reason (maybe the fancy scrolling interface when you look for files to restore?) but it's not really useable. It pretends that backups-over-the-network are a possibility but its completely unstable over the network and invariably decides the backup is corrupt after a few months and then tells you you have to start from scratch.

I finally got fed up with TM and switched to borg via Vorta. So much more reliable. A couple of times I've gotten error messages when I went off network while it was trying to do a backup, but each time the repo was fine.

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by vivzkestrel »

- they blew 2 of my hard drives so far. you keep it connected and it used to do hourly backups except now both my hard drives are dead

- i am too afraid to buy another one and connect only to find out the SSD gets killed in another week

- Anyone knows about this issue?

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by varenc »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #122

- they blew 2 of my hard drives so far. you keep it connected and it used to do hourly backups except now both my hard drives are dead - i am too afraid to buy another one and connect only to find out the SSD gets killed in another week - Anyone knows about this issue?

you're probably backing up things that change very often you don't care about? Figure out what's taking up space in each backup and use `tmutil excludepath -p `.

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by ezfe »

atombender wrote: post #95
ezfe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When backing up to a local system it is extremely useable and reliable. It creates separate snapshot volumes for each backup and can be navigated in the Finder interface or using the fancy space interface. Also, backups over the network are possible and have worked well for me for a few years.

It's reliable except when it's not. I'm using Mojave, and currently fighting a bug where a local snapshot gets stuck. When I list the local snapshots, I see the old one, then a gap of several days, and then additional snapshots. From what I can tell, this snapshot is preventing space reclamation. The last month or so, I've constantly run out of disk space even when not doing anything special. As in actually run out o…

Mojave is 7 years old so I think its safe to say you can't generalize

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by lisper »

hedgehog wrote: post #56
lisper wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you do that?

Settings -> General -> Software Update -> Beta Updates It's the same on macOS and iOS, pick "macOS Sequoia Public Beta" or the corresponding release for your device. Apple still pushes security updates for those releases, and I haven't heard of any problems with the kind of minor updates that ship late in a major release's lifecycle, so I think the risk of running this way is low. This kicks the can a year or two dow…

Thanks!

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by itchingsphynx »

fmajid wrote: post #71

I never trusted Time Machine, my primary line of defense is rsync to a server running ZFS with hourly snapshots, and weekly rotations of offsite drives. For bootable backups, Carbon Copy Cloner.

+1 for TM to ZFS - although over samba. A ZFS snapshot at each successful disconnection means any occasional corruption is simple to rollback. Also I’m using nightly Arc backup to B2 of critical files.

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by vivzkestrel »

varenc wrote: post #123
vivzkestrel wrote: post #122

- they blew 2 of my hard drives so far. you keep it connected and it used to do hourly backups except now both my hard drives are dead - i am too afraid to buy another one and connect only to find out the SSD gets killed in another week - Anyone knows about this issue?

you're probably backing up things that change very often you don't care about? Figure out what's taking up space in each backup and use `tmutil excludepath -p `.

i excluded a whole bunch of things, i did not run out of space. my SSD actually blew up. it has become unusable, i cant even open it anymore

Re: TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

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Post by re5i5tor »

crazygringo wrote: post #75
codeulike wrote: post #32

Time Machine is held in high regard for some reason (maybe the fancy scrolling interface when you look for files to restore?) but it's not really useable. It pretends that backups-over-the-network are a possibility but its completely unstable over the network and invariably decides the backup is corrupt after a few months and then tells you you have to start from scratch.

Agreed, exactly matches my experience over SMB. It works at first, then eventually refuses to work until you delete it start again from scratch. Eventually I just gave up.

Exactly right.
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