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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">On 14 Dec 2017, at 13:18, Randall Meadows wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 14 Dec 2017, at 10:44, Tracy Valleau wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">As an Apple Developer since 1978, I can say that I quit using TM years ago. It is a consumer-level product, with modest capabilities and horrible reliability.<br>
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You asked for a solution. You need more robust backup software, which offers a mimicking of TM.<br>
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Two extremely reliable options are Carbon Copy Cloner and Chronosync. Both can be configured to run automatically whenever you like.<br>
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Chronosync is extremely versatile, and can out-do TM in its level of granularity.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Neither of which, though, do "versioned" backups like TM does, right? You only get the most recent "snapshot" of the drive, not any history of any items?</p>
<p dir="auto">(I use CCC nightly for a quick-recovery in case of major disk failure, and TM to save my butt when I do something silly in <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">git</code>...)</p>
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</blockquote><p dir="auto">That's why I don't use CCC. I use other, home-built solutions for full, non-versioned backup.</p>
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