It analyses backups made from HFS+ volumes in Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave, and from APFS volumes in High Sierra and Mojave. I’m delighted to announce that all these issues and more have now been addressed in a new version, T2M2 1.4, available from here: t2m214 It has run, and version 1.3 still does, even in Mojave, but one figure is invariably wrong, it doesn’t look at local snapshots, and doesn’t do Dark Mode either. Click on its Check Time Machine button, and it gives a traffic light indicator, hopefully green, as to how your backups are running, and provides some useful detail about the whole backup system.īecause I was unable to run backups in High Sierra (it’s a long story involving a Fusion Drive, APFS, and inability to dual-boot High Sierra), T2M2 hasn’t been updated for changes which were introduced in macOS 10.13. My solution is a free tool, The Time Machine Mechanic, or T2M2, which I built to analyse Time Machine entries automatically in Sierra’s logs. But from Sierra on, that has become increasingly complex, and most users would rather undergo root canal treatment than try to make any sense of what they now see in Console. Before Sierra brought the new unified log, it was easy to check for problems using Console. But it’s easy to forget, and sometimes can be misleading. You can keep Time Machine’s menu in your menubar, and every day check that the last backup was made less than an hour ago. The snag is that, when backups stop being made, you may be none the wiser: Time Machine isn’t very good at warning you that something has gone wrong. So long as you keep ample free space on the volume which holds your backups, it should only rarely run into trouble. For much of the time, Time Machine backups just work.
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