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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Insomniacal Mac
Date: 11 Jun 2024 22:14:59 GMT
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On 2024-06-11, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 2024-06-11 12:15:44 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>> 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.
>
> Which, for those who want such a feature, partly defeats the purpose
> of copying those old versions in the first place. When they want to
> retrieve it, it could well be gone.

That's fully in control of the user. Following Apple's recommendation to
use a backup volume that is 2-3 times the size of the data being backed
up is all that is necessary to ensure this isn't a concern.  

>>> 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.
>
> For me Time Machine is a useless waste of time.

You definitely don't speak for the rest of us.

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