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| From | Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: APFS on HDD |
| Date | 2018-11-11 18:03 +1300 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <ps8d7t$r49$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <0001HW.2196A3D800D19A6370000D2122EF@news.giganews.com> <1ny2c51.bdcrtc1ehzkc6N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <ps6ouk$e8u$1@dont-email.me> <ps7hbh$1koc$1@gioia.aioe.org> <ps7mqh$8a7$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2018-11-10 22:41:20 +0000, J Burns said: > On 11/10/18 4:08 PM, Your Name wrote: >> On 2018-11-10 14:11:30 +0000, J Burns said: >>> On 11/10/18 12:52 AM, David Empson wrote: >>>> Elden <usenet@moondog.org> wrote: >>>>> On Nov 9, 2018, Your Name wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> During some of the beta testing of High Sierra, APFS was available for >>>>>> hard drives and Fusion drives, but that support was dropped from the >>>>>> official release due to some issues, so only SSDs were converted. >>>>>> >>>>>> Apple has managed to fix those issues, and as of Mojave, Apple has made >>>>>> APFS the standard disk format for all drive types, including hard >>>>>> drives and Fusion drives. >>>>> >>>>> I haven't heard. Can you use an APFS drive for a time machine backup >>>>> target? I believe originally one could not. >>>> >>>> No, Time Machine drives are still HFS+. >>>> >>>> They might be ready to start using APFS on Time Machine backup drives in >>>> macOS 10.15, but probably only for a new or erased backup drive as it >>>> would be too difficult to convert the tangled web of hard links on an >>>> existing backup drive into a snapshot/clone-based model for APFS. >>> >>> I'm thinking of getting a 2018 mini and keeping my 2012 mini as a >>> backup. I want to use CCC to keep to keep the files on the backup up to >>> date. Should I reformat the 2012 as APFS? (The 2012 has a spinning >>> disk, but I may install an SSD.) >> >> If you're backing up individual files and folders, then the format od >> the backup drive is irrelevant to any good piece of backup software >> that can automatically copy the real file when it encounters an alias / >> shortcut ... otherwise you could end up with a backup of the alias / >> shortcut istself, but not the real file it points to. I haven't ever >> looked into what Carbon Copy Cloner does with aliases / shortcuts since >> I clone the whole drive. >> >> If you're first cloning the entire drive and then doing regular sync >> backups, then the backup drive will be the same as the source drive >> anyway. The problem with this is that the 2012 Mac Mini may not be able >> to boot the new 2018 Mac Mini's version of the OS, so it would be a >> data backup, but not a usable computer (the 2012 Mac Mini would >> basically just be an expensive external drive). > > I'm confused about that. Years ago, I had PPC with a 603 running System > 8. Relatives had a G4 running OS X. I could put my system folder and > other files on a Firewire disk, take it to their house, and boot their > Mac as if it were my own. > > Would that not work between Intel minis? It depends on the specific Mac models and what versions of the OS they can use. An older Mac might not be able to run the newer macOS version. In your past example, the G4 can only use System 8.6 or newer, so if your PPC603 had been using System 8.0 you wouln't had been able to boot the G4 with that drive. Vice versa, if the G4 had been upgraded to OS X 10.3, then you wouldn't have been able to boot the PPC603 with that drive. In this case you're talking abot a 2018 Mac Mini running Mojave and a 2012 Mac Mini. Apple's list says "late 2012 or newer" for the Mac Mini, so you could be okay ... at the moment. BUT, the 2018 Mac Mini will be able to run macOS 10.15 when it is released (probably next year), while the 2012 Mac Mini may well get dropped off the compatibility list. At that point you won't be able to boot the 2012 Mac Mini using the 2018 Mac Mini's backup data.
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Re: APFS on HDD rs99tl@gmail.com - 2018-11-09 17:32 -0800
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-10 14:42 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD RSORLANDO <rs99tl@gmail.com> - 2018-11-09 18:15 -0800
Re: APFS on HDD Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-11-09 21:27 -0800
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-10 18:52 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-10 09:11 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-11 10:08 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-10 17:41 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-10 19:18 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-11 18:03 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-11 13:21 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-12 03:09 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-12 02:10 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-12 12:32 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-13 08:14 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-12 20:29 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-13 18:15 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-13 09:20 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 02:30 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-12 12:45 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 18:31 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-13 00:04 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-13 13:46 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-11 15:55 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-10 23:38 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-11 07:18 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-11 12:39 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-12 09:10 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-11 19:26 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-12 16:20 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-12 01:46 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-14 02:05 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-11 07:13 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 02:10 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 02:02 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-12 21:57 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 18:26 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-11-13 01:12 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-12 23:44 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-11-13 18:17 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-13 19:38 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-13 10:21 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-13 05:55 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-14 01:28 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-13 13:40 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-11-13 18:18 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-13 05:57 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-14 01:28 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-13 13:27 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-14 13:31 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-14 15:33 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-15 12:04 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-15 00:35 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-15 22:24 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-15 12:39 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid> - 2018-11-16 13:45 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-16 20:13 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-18 18:37 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-18 17:40 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-19 13:42 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-19 02:08 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-19 15:52 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-18 22:31 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-20 13:23 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-19 23:32 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-20 22:05 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-11-20 09:36 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2018-11-20 06:12 -0700
Re: APFS on HDD "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-11-20 14:28 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-20 09:36 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-20 08:57 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-11-20 14:34 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-20 09:36 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-19 05:46 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-19 02:27 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid> - 2018-11-19 11:42 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-20 13:23 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-19 21:57 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-11-20 16:28 +1300
Re: APFS on HDD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-11-21 13:24 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid> - 2018-11-19 11:34 -0500
Re: APFS on HDD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-13 13:41 +0000
Re: APFS on HDD Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-11-11 13:04 -0500
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