1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. UK.COMP.HOMEBUILT

  • Mac Time Machine

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 25 09:32:03 2023
    Hope this is OK here, I know some subscribers use Macs.

    I have a Mac Mini M1 with Ventura on it.

    Just been into it after some months and there is a massive list of notifications relating to the Time Machine down the right side. Googled
    how to close them all at once - click on date then the three dot menu.
    Guess what covers up the date menu when you click on it?

    Anyway I want to look at the settings for the Time Machine but as far as I
    can see I can only change the frequency of backups or add another TM.

    How do I get into the full settings please? It's using my QNAP NAS but
    from all those messages does seem happy.

    Is there anything similar for Windows instead of my scheduled backups?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
    (Ken Olson, president Digital Equipment, 1977)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Gaines on Tue Jul 25 09:48:50 2023
    On 25/07/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:


    Hope this is OK here, I know some subscribers use Macs.

    I have a Mac Mini M1 with Ventura on it.

    Just been into it after some months and there is a massive list of >notifications relating to the Time Machine down the right side. Googled
    how to close them all at once - click on date then the three dot menu.
    Guess what covers up the date menu when you click on it?

    Anyway I want to look at the settings for the Time Machine but as far as I >can see I can only change the frequency of backups or add another TM.

    How do I get into the full settings please? It's using my QNAP NAS but
    from all those messages does seem happy.

    Is there anything similar for Windows instead of my scheduled backups?

    Just to clarify now I can see things:
    No menu appears when I click on the time just "Adjust Widgets".
    The second option on the TM menu is to add/exclude something.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Vandenbergh on Tue Jul 25 11:46:06 2023
    On 25/07/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jaimie
    Vandenbergh wrote:

    How do I get into the full settings please? It's using my QNAP NAS but >>>from all those messages does seem happy.

    That is the full settings. What more do you need than destination(s), >exclusions and frequency? On a laptop you'd see a "backup on battery?"
    option too.

    I want to edit the settings or have the opportunity to do so, i.e. change
    the NAS or the directory.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 25 11:21:57 2023
    On 25 Jul 2023 at 10:48:50 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 25/07/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:


    Hope this is OK here, I know some subscribers use Macs.

    I have a Mac Mini M1 with Ventura on it.

    Just been into it after some months and there is a massive list of
    notifications relating to the Time Machine down the right side. Googled
    how to close them all at once - click on date then the three dot menu.

    TM notifications are usually "It's been ages since TM did a successful
    backup" so will go away as soon as you do a successful backup. If they
    weren't that, you could mention what they were?

    Guess what covers up the date menu when you click on it?

    Thankfully the idiots have managed to fix this in Sonoma beta. Two
    years! Mad.

    Anyway I want to look at the settings for the Time Machine but as far as I >> can see I can only change the frequency of backups or add another TM.

    How do I get into the full settings please? It's using my QNAP NAS but
    from all those messages does seem happy.

    That is the full settings. What more do you need than destination(s), exclusions and frequency? On a laptop you'd see a "backup on battery?"
    option too.

    Just to clarify now I can see things:
    No menu appears when I click on the time just "Adjust Widgets".

    Yeah, presumably that's an out of date web page you googled, for
    notifications the ... menu only appears *with* the notifications in the
    widgets column, so if you've dismissed them there's nothing.

    Cheers - Jaimie

    --
    "the first successful time machine will be used to retrieve
    lost Doctor Who episode footage." - KKC, ugvm

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 25 15:17:33 2023
    On 25 Jul 2023 at 12:46:06 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 25/07/2023 in message <[email protected]> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

    How do I get into the full settings please? It's using my QNAP NAS but >>>> from all those messages does seem happy.

    That is the full settings. What more do you need than destination(s),
    exclusions and frequency? On a laptop you'd see a "backup on battery?"
    option too.

    I want to edit the settings or have the opportunity to do so, i.e. change
    the NAS or the directory.

    Remove the old target, add the new target.

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    Sent from my Sun 4/60

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)