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

Randall Meadows randy.meadows at not-pc.com
Thu Dec 14 13:18:28 EST 2017


On 14 Dec 2017, at 10:44, Tracy Valleau wrote:

> 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.

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?

(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 `git`...)
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