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Re: TM Backup

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On 4 Aug 2020 at 09:53:32 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

> On 3 Aug 2020 at 22:03:33 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Aug 2020 at 21:13:58 BST, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3 Aug 2020 at 20:27:12 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
>>> <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> I wish ;-) 
>>> 
>>> CCC returns: Time Machine backup volumes use Apple-proprietary filesystem
>>> devices, and Apple does not support the use of third-party utilities to copy
>>> Time Machine backups. Use Finder to copy this proprietary data store to
>>> another disk.
>>> 
>>> Chronsync winged about non-accessible permissions.
>> 
>> Betcha Disk Utility would manage it. It's half the speed of 3rd party
>> cloners,
>> but it gets the job done.
> 
> Gave up on the file copy - after about 12 hours, 2 of the 8 million files had
> been 'prepared'. And even if it got as far as preparing, copy's by no means
> guaranteed from the suspect disk.
> 
> Do you mean create an image, and copying that, using DU?

"Restore". Choose the destination new drive, and "Restore" the old TM drive to
it. All very arse-backwards.

Also it's a bit flaky, occasionally it just refuses to get going and needs a
reboot or drives replug before it'll admit to knowing how to rather than
tossing a -1283612786 error.

> As it is I'm using a trial of Superduper - that's gone straight to copy,
> about
> 20GB/hr using USB3. So even that is going to take over a day to copy 500GB.

Oh, that'll do! Much more likely to work first time.

	Cheers - Jaimie
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  Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 10:31 +0000
    Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 13:54 +0000
      Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 14:09 +0000
        Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 18:57 +0000
          Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 19:27 +0000
            Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-03 20:13 +0000
              Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-03 16:22 -0400
              Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 21:03 +0000
                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-04 08:53 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-04 10:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Fred <fredbare@[127.0.0.1]> - 2020-08-04 14:30 +0100
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-04 17:33 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-04 13:44 -0400
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                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-04 16:14 -0400
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                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 08:13 -0400
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                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-05 09:05 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-05 10:54 +0000
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 14:14 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 10:21 -0400
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 14:31 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 10:34 -0400
                Re: TM Backup black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) - 2020-08-05 16:47 +0100
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-05 17:13 +0000
                Re: TM Backup TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-08-05 21:04 +0000
                Re: TM Backup richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-08-05 23:17 +0000
                Re: TM Backup John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-08-06 08:37 +0000
                Re: TM Backup RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-08-06 08:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-06 09:58 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2020-08-06 12:30 +0100

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