[MlMt] . Re: High Sierra, APFS, Time Machine, and MailMate.

[Tracy Valleau]

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.

You asked for a solution. You need more robust backup software, which 
offers a mimicking of TM.

Two extremely reliable options are Carbon Copy Cloner and Chronosync. 
Both can be configured to run automatically whenever you like.

Chronosync is extremely versatile, and can out-do TM in its level of 
granularity.


Tracy
www.valleau.art




On 14 Dec 2017, at 9:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:45:44 -0800
> From: "Roger Bohn" <Rbohn at ucsd.edu>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] High Sierra, APFS, Time Machine, and MailMate...
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> I have had this situation for many YEARS, long before I got MailMate.
> The overall symptom is that backups take *many hours*, with sudden,
> inexplicable stalls. I say
>> "inexplicable" because Activity Monitor shows essentially no CPU,
>> network, or disk activity -- but the backup just *stops*.
>
> The problem is worse, the more Time Machine needs to back up. And for
> reasons I have never figured out, even a routine backup on TM (of a 
> few
> hours of material) can have 5GB of files to go through. As a result, I
> can get into a situation where TM is completely unable to get up to
> date.
>
> So I don’t know a solution, but don’t be too sure that it is 
> really
> due to MM. If anyone finds a solution, please drop me a line!
>    One thing that helps is to switch from WiFi to a hard ethernet
> connection. For some reason, TM is considerably faster that way.
>
>   Roger Bohn, UC San Diego
> Rbohn at ucsd.edu
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> On 10 Dec 2017, at 18:14, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> Seems like an improbable subject line--but is anyone else who uses
>> MailMate on High Sierra/APFS suddenly having serious Time Machine
>> performance issues? I am, on two different laptops. An iMac, which 
>> has
>> a hard drive and hence HFS+, is not having any trouble.
>>
>> The overall symptom is that backups take *many hours*, with sudden,
>> inexplicable stalls. I say "inexplicable" because Activity Monitor
>> shows essentially no CPU, network, or disk activity -- but the backup
>> just *stops*. I normally don't run MailMate on one of the laptops; 
>> its
>> backups complete in a rational amount of time. When I do, it sees the
>> same stalls. In fact, I'm running MailMate on it right now so that I
>> can see what happens on my primary laptop when I exit MailMate. Sure
>> enough, that machine is now behaving.
>>
>> My suspicion is that the problem has to do with very large 
>> directories
>> on APFS file systems, but I don't know that for sure. I have some 
>> very
>> large mailboxes, though, and these are of course active when MailMate
>> is running.  And of course, that doesn't explain why I don't see any
>> system activity.
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone have any work-arounds, other
>> than "don't have such large mailboxes" or "don't run APFS"? I do have
>> a new laptop on order; I'm seriously tempted to reformat it as HFS+
>> before I start using it.
>>
>>
>>         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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