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

2017-12-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Dec 2017, at 13:18 (-0500), Randall Meadows wrote: 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. Yo

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

2017-12-14 Thread David Hoffman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 Randall Meadows wrote: >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? CS can be set up to keep archived copies of changed or deleted items. I have it archive the

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

2017-12-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On 14 Dec 2017, at 13:18, Randall Meadows wrote: 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 m

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

2017-12-14 Thread Randall Meadows
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 mimicki

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

2017-12-14 Thread Rob Willett
I can only second what Tracey says. I use Carbon Copy Cloner AND Chronosync as they have slightly different use cases. I tend to use Chronosync for full archived backups and CCC for disk clones but thats just me. I suspect I could use only one system and be very happy. I have had too many is

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

2017-12-14 Thread Tracy Valleau
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 Ca