Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Browne Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Insomniacal Mac Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:15:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:15:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a8341fe67a5bd07505013722e31ede94"; logging-data="1096409"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rPxNtnEjUrrzEq2RH668LmX3lS9gArfs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GZjLaXM2UwtvL9wvy512nZdK7N8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2565 On 2024-06-11 00:48, Your Name wrote: > I've never bothered with Time Machine either. It's methodology seems to > be a ridiculous waste of drive space backing up mutiple versions of the > same document. I don't use Versions either and always delete the old > ones if using an app like Pages that insists on doing that silliness. Following the initial backup, succeeding backups are differences only (changed files and new files), so it's a very slow accumulation. Once the backup volume is near full, oldest redundant backups are removed. > > I use CarbonCopyCloner to backup manually when I want to. The only > problem with it it that it is quite slow at working out what to copy. If > I've only changed a few documents, it still takes nearly an hour to > trawl through the entire drive before copying just those few altered / > new files. There was also a problem at one stage where it would hang > during that phase of working out what to copy and eventually stop with > an error, but updating to a slightly newer version seems to have fixed > that. Time Machine does not have this issue. Note you can install s/w that will run TM at a reduced pace (you turn off automatic TM updates and let the scheduler s/w invoke TM) - this also addresses your issue above to some degree. -- "It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe." Winston Churchill