Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Feb 29, 2016, at 9:24 PM, Ludwig wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Backups to a non-Apple network-attached storage (NAS) device that claims to >> have Time Machine support will become corrupted over time, with the >> likelihood increasing greatly if backups are attem

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Ludwig
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Backups to a non-Apple network-attached storage (NAS) device that claims to > have Time Machine support will become corrupted over time, with the > likelihood increasing greatly if backups are attempted over wireless. I have > used this for years, and hav

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Feb 29, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Michael wrote: > Ok, lets see. You had power loss on an external drive, on a Linux system. So > the Linux system was either reporting "file stored on drive" when it was not, or it was just reporting back that the drive said the file was stored when it wasn't (most '

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Michael
On 2016-02-29, at 3:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Non-Apple implementations of AFP (i.e. netatalk) are simply not sufficiently > compatible with Apple's implementation to work reliably with Time Machine, no > matter what the third-party vendor trying to sell it to you says. >From what I unders

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 29/02/16 11:35, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Backups to a locally attached disk work fine. I've used this for years without backups becoming corrupted. Backups to an Apple Time Machine over the network, whether over Ethernet or wireless, work fine. I've used this for years without backups becom

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Backups to a locally attached disk work fine. I've used this for years without backups becoming corrupted. Backups to an Apple Time Machine over the network, whether over Ethernet or wireless, work fine. I've used this for years without backups becoming corrupted. Backups to Server.app's Time

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-28 Thread [ftp83plus]
I learnt the hard way that TM's efficiency is not necessarily what you expect it to be. Corruption from power loss on an external drive three times, surprise corruption on Linux server running AFP 3.4-compatible Netatalk two times in 3 months. On directly-connected hard drives, there are very f

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-22 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2016-02-22 08:52, Dave Horsfall wrote: > I ask because either it won't back up .dotfiles, or I've forgotten to > click one of those box thingies... They should have been backed up, but you might not see them in Finder when browsing the backup directory without enabling hidden files. Use these

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-22 Thread Chris Jones
On 22/02/16 12:38, Bachsau wrote: Am 22.02.2016 um 08:52 schrieb Dave Horsfall : I ask because either it won't back up .dotfiles, or I've forgotten to click one of those box thingies... Time Machine can do complete system restores, which is why it needs to backup every file. However, it c

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-22 Thread Bachsau
> Am 22.02.2016 um 08:52 schrieb Dave Horsfall : > > I ask because either it won't back up .dotfiles, or I've forgotten to > click one of those box thingies... Time Machine can do complete system restores, which is why it needs to backup every file. However, it could be possible that it doesn'