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| From | Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: TM Backup |
| Date | 2020-08-03 19:27 +0000 |
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On 3 Aug 2020 at 19:57:45 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2020 at 15:09:22 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3 Aug 2020 at 14:54:17 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As an aside, I find the weekly folder arrangements a lot more reassuring than
>>> the old 'bundle'.
>>
>> Mount the bundle with a double-click and you'll see all the weekly folders.
>> It's just an encapsulation, to reduce network traffic and also allow for TM
>> backups to be on drives that aren't formatted Mac. My bundles sit on a NAS
>> with a ZFS filesystem, for instance.
>
> Ah, right, live/learn - although the original is Mac OS Extended
> (Case-sensitive, Journaled).
>>
>> Big Sur will be using APFS format disks (and bundles), by the way - but TM
>> doesn't convert them, you have to start a new one. With these two disks on
>> the
>> go, you'll be able to happily clear one and offer it up to Big Sur to
>> reformat. It's *so* much faster than HFS, even on spinning disks where APFS
>> is
>> slower.
>
> That's handy, thanks.
>
> The file copy is taking a loooong time - still 'preparing to copy', after 6
> hours - now on 1.7m items and rising slowly (not sure how many to go), 500GB
> total.
It'll take ages. A disk cloner would be better than file by file, because
doing the file by file means every single link will be managed separately,
even if you have fifty backups all pointing at one file it'll get counted and
processed 50 times. A disk cloner will do the copy blockwise instead without
caring about the files in it.
If it were a bundle it'd be a lot quicker - those are made up out of 8meg
subfiles, there may be tens of thousands of them but there won't be millions
:)
Cheers - Jaimie
--
"I think man is the most interesting insect on earth, don't you?"
-- Marvin the Martian
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