3 min read Photo by Dainis Graveris / Unsplash.We recommend to people around here to use alternative like Carbon Copy Cloner if you want reliable backup. And having a backup that is unreliable can let you down badly the day you actually need it. Time Machine is less and less reliable with each passing OS increment. ![]() Quick Erase is very fast and will get you going again. or if the file is not too big cf all the ones you want to delete copy it to a USB drive plugged into your MBA. after saving the sparsebundle you may want by using archive to USB drive plugged into the Time Capsule. Otherwise do the usual erase from airport utility. Particularly using sudo to get full permissions when you start the command. old-backups-from-timemachine-keep-only-… tmutil which is able to delete old backups. Time Machine does have a command line mode. so there is no possible connection to any sparse bundle then I think the error is new permissions problem and is not really related to bands at all. If you went through all the steps Bob gave of turning off Time Machine. The only time I can remember seeing "bands in use" is from windows trying to do deletion on the TC but that is ages ago. Synology does attempt to replicate some of the functionality.Įxpect Apple to make future changes designed to break this. Apple restricts a lot of functions to iCloud. To even access files on the NAS you need an app like file browser. Apple is trying to get you to use cloud storage. you should be running it as main file server, media, music videos etc.Īlso, do any of the products also interface with cellphones, which are more than ever a hub of work and activity?Ĭellphones (if you are talking iPhones) do NOT work particularly well on local networks. To justify the cost you really need to use it as much more than backup though. if you store files on the NAS then redundancy does not equal backup and you also should buy a large USB drive. but you can start with smaller number of drives if you like and add more later.ĭo not ignore backup though. That will be an expensive unit when you add up what 4 x 4TB (say) drives cost. very much recommend more disks as it is more efficient with data redundancy. and later on you can upgrade to a 4 disk model. For people starting out you might want to buy just a 2 disk cheap end model. the firmware is pretty much common across the whole range. To backup the laptops and computers of a family of six, which of their products do you recommend?īest you can afford. and you should then get the whole works.ĭisk tab I showed in earlier post is end one. A summary screen will appear with edit button.Ĭlick the edit. they always remove it.īut your version of airport utility in Mojave should still have all the same screens. well worth it if you want to use Time Machine and you are upgrading to Mojave as it becomes more and more unreliable. ![]() then start new backups from all the computers. of equal size or larger to its internal disk and select archive before you erase. If you want to keep your old backups plug in a USB Mac formatted drive to the TC. Go to disk tab in airport utility and select erase. Wiping the TC is a major hassle since I have six computers backing up on it (the whole family). It is also a case of improved security on the network is making backups to network targets less and less viable. we are not the only people who have noticed. Time Machine is now getting attention in the market place as unreliable. but it can be used to TC and setup a sparse bundle. ie a complete disk that can immediately be used as alternative boot device. It is recommended to use with a local USB drive because CCC can then create a bootable clone. you can use CCC in the same way you use Time Machine.
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