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Re: TM Backup

From RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: TM Backup
Date 2020-08-03 18:57 +0000
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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.

-- 
Cheers, Rob

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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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