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Re: TM Backup

From TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: TM Backup
Date 2020-08-05 14:31 +0000
Message-ID <hovu6eFiqbU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <rg73gd$1h6l$1@gioia.aioe.org> <hovheaF2nqtU2@mid.individual.net> <hovt5rFiqbU1@mid.individual.net> <050820201021279353%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On 5 Aug 2020 at 15:21:27 BST, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <hovt5rFiqbU1@mid.individual.net>, TimH
> <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> It probably is. Time Machine on HFS+ is a horrible horrible kludge and does
>>> Just Break now and then as it maintains several million pseudo link files
>>> in a
>>> hidden directory. Reformat it and set it up as your second TM destination.
>> 
>> Reading this kind of thing (and there's been plenty of it here and
>> elsewhere),
>> I don't really understand why a) anyone uses TM and b) why there isn't more
>> fuss about it. I know it probably has more users than SD and CCC by orders of
>> magnitude, therefore inevitably more complaints, but even so...
> 
> because time machine works quite well and addresses a different failure
> mode than superduper & carbon copy cloner. many people use both.

"works quite well" is an underwhelming verdict on backup software
--
> TimH
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  Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-02 15:34 -0400
    Re: TM Backup David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-03 00:03 +0100
      Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-02 19:10 -0400
    Re: TM Backup nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2020-08-02 20:09 -0600
      Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-02 22:05 -0700
      Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-03 15:30 -0400
  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
                Re: TM Backup Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-08-04 19:43 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-04 16:14 -0400
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-04 23:02 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-04 23:05 +0000
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-05 14:32 +0000
                Re: TM Backup nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-05 08:13 -0400
                Re: TM Backup Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-05 14:32 +0000
                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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