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  • Re: Temporarily ignore Time Machine destination

    From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 11 10:10:23 2025
    On 11 Jan 2025 at 09:18:54 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Sometimes I want Time Machine to ignore a certain destination for a few weeks (while I'm away, for example) so that it doesn't waste time trying to use it, and I don't get spurious warnings.

    There's no concept for this exposed in the Time Machine settings interface - what's the best way to achieve it?

    Daniele

    As far as I know, nothing other than removing it from TM settings then
    adding it back again later.

    It's quite tedious, I'm so bored of the TM icon lying that I'm not
    backed up, and Apple ignoring my annual new-macOS bug reports about it
    for the last decade.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From D.M. Procida@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 11 09:18:54 2025
    Sometimes I want Time Machine to ignore a certain destination for a few weeks (while I'm away, for example) so that it doesn't waste time trying to use it, and I don't get spurious warnings.

    There's no concept for this exposed in the Time Machine settings interface - what's the best way to achieve it?

    Daniele

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  • From D.M. Procida@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 11 11:49:42 2025
    On 11 Jan 2025 at 10:10:23 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11 Jan 2025 at 09:18:54 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Sometimes I want Time Machine to ignore a certain destination for a few weeks
    (while I'm away, for example) so that it doesn't waste time trying to use it,
    and I don't get spurious warnings.

    There's no concept for this exposed in the Time Machine settings interface - >> what's the best way to achieve it?

    As far as I know, nothing other than removing it from TM settings then
    adding it back again later.

    Did you ever run into an issue where it would refuse to acknowledge the forgotten backup when you tried to do that?

    It's quite tedious, I'm so bored of the TM icon lying that I'm not
    backed up, and Apple ignoring my annual new-macOS bug reports about it
    for the last decade.

    The whole Time Machine machinery itself seems to have been forgotten by Apple. They got it fundamentally working about 15 years ago, and seem to have
    decided: good enough, let's leave it like that.

    Daniele

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  • From TimS@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 11 13:40:11 2025
    On 11 Jan 2025 at 11:49:42 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <[email protected]> wrote:

    The whole Time Machine machinery itself seems to have been forgotten by Apple.
    They got it fundamentally working about 15 years ago, and seem to have decided: good enough, let's leave it like that.

    You sure? It seems to me they've removed the ability to restore to your chosen spot and also gone in for snapshots (full backups) every time instead of incremental backups made to look like full ones by a clever use of hard links.

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    Tim

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 12 23:05:26 2025
    On 11 Jan 2025 at 11:49:42 GMT, "D.M. Procida" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11 Jan 2025 at 10:10:23 GMT, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11 Jan 2025 at 09:18:54 GMT, "D.M. Procida"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Sometimes I want Time Machine to ignore a certain destination for a few weeks
    (while I'm away, for example) so that it doesn't waste time trying to use it,
    and I don't get spurious warnings.

    There's no concept for this exposed in the Time Machine settings interface -
    what's the best way to achieve it?

    As far as I know, nothing other than removing it from TM settings then
    adding it back again later.

    Did you ever run into an issue where it would refuse to acknowledge the forgotten backup when you tried to do that?

    I think perhaps once? Not recently, maybe five years back.

    It's quite tedious, I'm so bored of the TM icon lying that I'm not
    backed up, and Apple ignoring my annual new-macOS bug reports about it
    for the last decade.

    The whole Time Machine machinery itself seems to have been forgotten by Apple.
    They got it fundamentally working about 15 years ago, and seem to have decided: good enough, let's leave it like that.

    They did the "okay so obviously we wrote TM originally to use ZFS
    snapshots then didn't do ZFS so had to do it the hard way with directory hardlinks; but now we have APFS snapshots so we can finally use
    snapshots yaaaay" a few years back. Requires starting a new backup
    though, so it can format the destination to APFS.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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    must type in, "I know what I am doing and that it is wrong" before they can proceed.
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