Disk Utility and Time Machine in Ventura
At the time, I suggested a workaround involving manual ejection of Time Machine backup snapshots[…] Looking in the hidden folder of snapshots on that Mac, there were no longer any listed as mounted for backups. Although that may not be guaranteed in every case, it now looks as if Disk Utility and Time Machine between them have solved this problem.
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One great advantage of the new System Settings is that long lists of items not to be backed up by Time Machine are now more accessible, as System Settings’ window can occupy the full height of the display.
Time Machine’s controls aren’t perhaps as obvious as they could be: two commands that you might not know how to access are to back up with a consistency scan, and browse other backup disks. These are available in Time Machine’s menu (enabled in Control Centre) with the Shift or Option key held down, respectively.
Apple finally added more Time Machine scheduling options in Ventura.
This means that the on/off switch is now buried in the options pane, which is already confusing users.
Unlike Apple, I’m a lot more interested in scheduling when backups happen within a day than in how many days to wait between backups.
Previously:
- Nightly Time Machine
- Removing Unwanted APFS Time Machine Backups
- Invasive Spotlight Indexing
- System Settings
- Will Disk Utility Ever Work Properly?
- Time Machine Evolution and APFS
