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gbdoc 09-15-2020 12:05 PM

Time Machine replacement?
 
I'm increasingly fed up with Time Machine and would like to see whether there's another way, another app, which can do the same thing, best would be over WiFi. Though I've used SD for a long time, I'm sure I don't yet know all it can do. Can SD do this? If not: Dave, what do you think, in the future, maybe?

dnanian 09-15-2020 12:18 PM

I think that you should use Time Machine for Time Machine things, and SuperDuper for the things it does well. See this post:

https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/in...rfect_backups/

gbdoc 09-16-2020 03:16 AM

If TM did TM things reasonably reliably and reasonably well, as it once did, that'd be fine. While I'm still using TM, the only reliable backup I have are my SD clones. To be honest, my intention is to pique your interest, to think about implementing such a routine in SD. If anybody can do this, it's you. (and I'm sure you have lots of spare time to devote to this ;) )

dnanian 09-16-2020 08:42 AM

Apple is pretty motivated to fix their app, and in general I don't think it's a wise move to try to replace, vs. complement, something that comes for free with every Mac, and is almost forced on users... I understand the frustration, of course, but still feel my suggestions in that post represent the best approach...and if you add online to the two things you're doing, you're pretty well covered.

sdsl 09-20-2020 01:44 AM

One thing I have been doing is maintain at least two SuperDuper clones. I use external SSDs, the updates are very fast. I alternate between the two clones. This way I always have two working clones, done at different times.

I also have at least two Time Machine backup disks, alternating.

And specific important files are also manually copied into cloud storage.

This past year, we had a 2013 Macbook Air internal SSD fail, and a 2011 Macbook Air is starting to show degraded SMART parameters in the extended (long) DriveDX tests, as well as in the detailed SMART listing from TechTool Pro. With our backups, we have easily transitioned to new Macbook Pros.


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