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Was nützt ein automatisches stündliches Backup, das keinen Alarm macht, wenn es scheitert?

https://www.mactechnews.de/news/article/Mac-Praxis-Das-stille-Scheitern-von-Time-Machine-und-wie-man-Datenverlust-vorbeugt-188654.html

#TimeMachine #macos #tahoe

@joekissell That last sentence was the important part for me.

I already exclude my #Mastodon #PostgreSQL store from #TimeMachine and instead have a scheduled cold #backup script that rotates archives into a folder that it *does* backup.

How Time Machine backups can fail silently

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/15/how-time-machine-backups-can-fail-silently/

<p>If anyone claims they have engineered something so you can set it and forget it, remind them of the third step in that process, where you come to regret it. Without attentive monitoring, any system is likely to fail without your being aware. Time Machine is a good example, and this article illustrates how it can fail almost totally without you being aware that anything has changed.</p>
<h4>Scenario</h4>
<p>I’ve recently been testing a security product on my Mac mini M4 Pro. One of its more novel features is device control similar to Apple’s Accessory Security for Apple silicon Mac laptops. I’m sure I’m not the only person who has wondered why that feature hasn’t been incorporated into desktop models, and here is a third-party developer doing just that and more. For their implementation lets you specify precisely which peripherals can be connected, down to the serial number of each SSD.</p>
<p>When I installed and went through the onboarding of this product, I naturally assumed that my Time Machine backup storage, an external SSD, would be allowed by this control, as it was connected at the time. At that time I was offered no option to manually allow it, and as its three volumes remained listed in the Finder’s Locations I didn’t check its settings.</p>
<p>When I started that Mac up the following day, I discovered that I had lost access to that external SSD. Its three volumes were still there in the Finder, but any attempt to open th

Howard Oakley: TimeMachine - If you just set it and forget it, you will come to regret it.
#MacOS #TimeMachine #backups

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/15/how-time-machine-backups-can-fail-silently/

In this week's installment of 🚀 cutting-edge technology insights, behold the miraculous time machine: floppy disks as the ultimate TV remote for kids. 🤯 Because clearly, navigating a labyrinth of apps on a modern remote is so last century, and nothing screams "child-friendly" like a relic from the 1980s. 😂
https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/ #cuttingEdgeTech #timeMachine #floppyDisks #TVRemote #childFriendly #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Congratulations, Jesse! You've heroically managed to make #Linux crawl at a snail's pace on the Raspberry Pi RP2350's "ultra-fast" #Hazard3 #RISC-V cores. 🚀 Now all we need is a time machine to make it usable before we all grow old waiting for it to boot. ⏳🙃
https://www.hackster.io/news/jesse-taube-gets-linux-up-and-running-on-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-hazard3-risc-v-cores-19088b87bb2c #RaspberryPi #SlowBoot #TimeMachine #HackerNews #ngated

YouTube Tipp ▶️
So hast Du "#DieZeitmaschine" (1960) noch nie gesehen! | #Fakten, #Hintergründe & #Morlocks #scifi #Timemachine
https://youtu.be/bc3z67LpAFA?si=FBE8SlatTLiJvAXC

Check Time Machine backups in macOS Sequoia and Tahoe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/08/check-time-machine-backups-in-macos-sequoia-and-tahoe/

<p>It has been almost nine years since I released the first tentative version of <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/consolation-t2m2-and-log-utilities/">The Time Machine Mechanic</a>, T2M2. Over that time, Time Machine and T2M2 have transitioned from HFS+ to APFS, from backups based on directory hard links to snapshots, and Macs running Intel 2-core processors to those with M5 chips. This article explains how T2M2 analyses those backups in macOS Sequoia and Tahoe, and is based largely on automatic backups being made hourly to local storage.</p>
<p>T2M2 offers three features to see what’s happening with Time Machine and backups:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Check Time Machine</strong> button, to analyse backups made over the last few hours.</li>
<li><strong>Speed</strong> button, to view progress reports in the log during a long backup.</li>
<li><strong>Browse log</strong> button, to show filtered log extracts in fullest detail.</li>
</ul>
<p>These are each detailed in its Help book. Here I’ll concentrate on the first and last, and defer speed checks to the Help book.</p>
<h4><em>Check Time Machine</em> summary</h4>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/t2m2tahoe.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-90138" height="510" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/t2m2tahoe.jpg" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>T2M2 analyses log entries made by Time Machine to produce a summary of how Time Machine

Exclude or include items in backup, search, iCloud Drive and QuickLook preview

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/06/exclude-or-include-items-in-backup-search-icloud-drive-and-quicklook-preview/

<p>Time Machine backups, Spotlight search, iCloud Drive storage and QuickLook previews are each very useful when and where you want them. But there are occasions when you want to exclude folders and files from their reach, or items are excluded when you want them included. This article is a brief reference to how you can control exclusion and inclusion.</p>
<h4>Time Machine backups</h4>
<p>Time Machine has several mechanisms for excluding items from its backups. The first of those used to be detailed in its Standard Exclusions listed in the hidden file .exclusions.plist at the top level of every backup, but that file has gone missing in backups made since upgrading to Tahoe, and is nowhere to be found.</p>
<p>This listed several categories of exclusions, of which the first are apiExclusionPaths, added by individual third-party apps. The equivalent of what used to appear in the previous StdExclusions.plist was given under the standardExclusionPaths key, containing:</p>
<ul>
<li>.DocumentRevisions-V100 – the version database on each volume,</li>
<li>.Spotlight-V100 – Spotlight metadata,</li>
<li>.Trashes – contents of Trash folders,</li>
<li>.fseventsd – the File System Events database,</li>
<li>/Library/Logs – traditional text log files,</li>
<li>/Users/Guest – guest user files,</li>
<li>/private/var (partial) – various transient files,</li>
</ul>
<p>among many other ephemeral items.</p>
<p>Following those were stickyExclusionPaths, ex

#CurrentlyWishing that I was more cautious with the #MacOS updates. #Sequoia has rendered my #Focusrite 18i6 audio interface effectively useless. I never set up #TimeMachine, so "rolling back" isn't practical. Caveat emptor :-( #Apple #Tech #MacBook #MusicProduction https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/12033372452754-Focusrite-Compatibility-on-macOS

#TechIlliterate here continuing #newyear purge. I have a perfectly good late 2014 #apple #iMac, apparently the last of the 32bit chip line. (I can repeat the words but not grok). Last of #iOS. Pre #macOS.

How to keep hardware? for its screen and speakers. I have not been able to up the ios to its ultimate last one. #iCloud keeps the music and some photos syncing, but I can’t get a #TimeMachine backup to an external drive. Maybe that is irrelevant. Thots?

Remembering #SnowLeopard seeing the #Tahoe (after a 18GB download) is sobering. And expectations were low to begin with.
Money spoils good products.
P.S.: #TimeMachine UI design and time estimate looks having lost it's senses.

Ich guck jetzt (nochmal) den Film, der mir Albträume beschert hat, als ich ihn als Kind eher zufällig bei Bekannten sah. Jahrelang danach habe ich noch von den Morlocks geträumt. #Timemachine #HGWells

Dialoge aus der Hölle
#Synology #TimeMachine

Cách thiết lập máy chủ sao lưu Time Machine (TrueNAS) tự động bật/tắt để tiết kiệm điện:

1. Sử dụng tính năng BIOS RTC trên mainboard để hẹn giờ tự động khởi động và tắt máy chủ mỗi ngày.
2. Thiết lập cửa sổ thời gian hoạt động đủ dài (khoảng 3-5 giờ) để quá trình sao lưu hoàn tất.
3. macOS sẽ tự động nhận diện ổ đĩa mạng và thực hiện sao lưu khi máy chủ online trong khung giờ đã định.

Giải pháp đơn giản, phù hợp cho người dùng không chuyên.

#TrueNAS #TimeMachine #Backup #SelfHosted #Apple #S

The Junkyard also always returns . Wherever there is a perguidi, it can be willed back into existence, whether it be In Mountan View ,Toulmne , Sulpulpa . California ,Oaklahoma, or Hawaii or Japan. It's in our hearts. It's a time machine
ジャンクヤード（廃品置場）もまた、必ず戻ってくる。
マウンテンビュー、トゥオルミ、サパルパであろうと、カリフォルニア、オクラホマ、あるいはハワイであろうと、ペルグイディがいる場所ならどこでも、それは意志の力で再び呼び戻すことができるのだ。
それは私たちの心の中に存在している。私たちが携え歩く、タイムマシンのようなものなのだ。

#Perguidi #SanJoseCulture #TimeMachine #LegendaryMechanic #Legacy #アンダーグラウンドカルチャー #受け継がれる意志

Legendary Mount View Truck of Mario Perguidi sleeps in junk yard

.伝説的なメカニック、マリオ・ペルグイディのトラック。彼はサンノゼのアンダーグラウンド・カルチャーの礎（いしずえ）を築いた男だ。

#HomeLab status: #SelfHosted #Mastodon and #CalibreWeb services each running as separate #Docker Compose stacks on my 8GB M2 #Mac mini that also serves a household wallboard display and networked #TimeMachine backup host.

Anything else useful I should wedge onto it?

#SelfHosting #DevOps #macOS

Ok, #DejaDup fails checking #restic backups and tells backups fail, which they don't, they are all there.
It's a complex problem of networking, file system drivers and I don't know what…

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/-/issues/623

So, when you're asking: How hard can it be to get backing up right? The answer is: Yes.

(Again: Somehow this works on my Mac machines since 20 years. When you're wondering why I just bought a new MacBook Air for my wife again, it's reasons like this.)

#backup #timeMachine

Which extended attributes does macOS Tahoe preserve?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/17/which-extended-attributes-does-macos-tahoe-preserve/