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From: Alan Browne <singularity@blackhole.org>
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Subject: Re: Insomniacal Mac
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:15:44 -0400
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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.

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