Just my 2p worth but on our good old hard disk, reformatting our drive as APFS definitely speeded up the Time Machine backup.
It may be that in normal use, APFS is slower on a real disk, but some of the ‘kludges’ that were part of what TM did may no longer be required on APFS and with other changes to do with snapshots and the rest may more than counterbalance the slowing down. Maybe. 🤔 Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 4 Mar 2021, at 14:04, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My own observations of Time Machine on a M1 Mac is that it is much faster > than before. Watching this I felt sure that APFS was a factor in reducing > time for the backup - something to do with containers? > > -- > Tony Crooks > [email protected] > +44 7428 706227 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAHkKbUDo23frUPbNkceGsk4kbZ5anqpX0wPtw7Nub-AjoFzAxg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/9A98ECF5-60CD-488C-9E69-21579E83E9CB%40icloud.com.
