If I start Time Machine (macOS) , then skip after a while, does it start right over when it next restarts, or is some of the work reused?
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Why would you start it if you don't want to let it finish its work?
I think you can do the clean up in stages, so that might be best for you if you don't want to tie up your machine for the whole time. -
What Pulcie saidIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Don't use it
Don't trust it
It wlll let you down at the critical moment
Clone your computer rather than trust this terrible piece of softwareComment
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Clone it AND use Time Machine: they serve different purposes. Time Machine has never let me down (fingers &c) and it's useful when it's needed.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Time Machine let me down big time twiceOriginally posted by french frank View Post
The cloned copy is far superior
why use something that is unreliable ?Comment
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Because it serves a different purpose - as I just said. And, yes, clone it as well (as I also said).Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
You were obviously using it wrongly.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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"Time Machine Query" God, what an exciting thread title on Dr. Who Night...!
OP - ​well, mine seems to be working now, just can't quite get a fix on the exact year... any suggestions? etc....
....and then, reality bites...Comment
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Erm NO I wasn'tOriginally posted by french frank View Post
Time Machine decided that my backup disk was corrupt so couldn't read any of the data
after talking to others I found this is a "known issue" which happens some times
so Time Machine told me to completely reformat the disk thus losing everything backed up onto it
Avoid at all costs IMV
What is the "different purpose" ?
Backing up and restoring things ?Comment
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From that it seems as if you were using it as your sole back-up. Otherwise why did it matter that it 'let you down' if you also had a complete clone on an external drive? It does back up, but I have found it useful for restoring files which have inadvertently been deleted, and which hadn't yet been backed up.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Time Machine is marketed as the safe and best way to backup and restore things on your computer.Originally posted by french frank View Post
It is sold as something that is a sole solution
It's unreliable and flaky
I'm not sure what you mean by "restoring files which have inadvertently been deleted" if you aren't using an external backup drive ?
If you delete something by mistake it will be in the trash anyway (until you empty it) so it IS a backup.Comment
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I'ver never seen it described thus, but then, I've never seen any marketing for it: it's on the computers and you either connect it to an external drive and use it, or you don't.Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
One can only speak as one finds. I have found it useful - and reliable.Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
There are occasions which don't fall into that category - or trash can. But it may be in the way I work and you don't.Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
What I can say is that Time Machine has actually been useful to me while, although I back up both my iMac and MacBook with SuperDuper!, I've never used a back-up copy for anything: I just I have it.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Because I didn't know it might take so long. I didn't do it for months, and the backup was going to take "forever". My calculation was that it wouldn't have finished by midnight. I wanted to know what would happen if I quit the backup - "would it still take as long just to get the point at which I quit?".Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
In the end I left things for a while. Possibly it stalled, and the machine seemed to be getting hot as the fan was on hard. Then I quit all the other applications, and did one or two other actions to free up memory which seemed to speed things up significantly.
Finallly I just let it run, and it seems to have worked, copying 75 Gbytes to my external drive.
I agree with mrgg that it itsn't always reliable, but I do take other copies as well. I also look at the files on the TM drive, and they do seem to be a fair representation of the files which are copied.
I don't believe it is possible to be 100% secure/safe with these tools, and sometimes bad things happen. It would be very expensive to try to eliminate all the risks, and in practice impossible. I do what I can. I use TM in addition to other tools.Comment
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That certainly isn't how I use it. I do automatic back-ups, which seems to be what they advertise: every hour for the first 24-hrs &c.Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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That's OK for desktop machines, but a pain for a laptop.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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