{"id":13474,"date":"2016-02-10T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2016-02-10T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:21:33","slug":"benign-neglect-of-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/benign-neglect-of-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Benign Neglect of Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/why-apples-time-machine-utterly-fails-user-needs\">John Martellaro<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/katiefloyd.com\/blog\/katies-week-in-review-february-7-2016\">Katie Floyd<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/why-apples-time-machine-utterly-fails-user-needs\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Machine_%28OS_X%29\">Time Machine backup system<\/a> was born in a time (2006) when Apple realized that customers weren&rsquo;t routinely backing up their Macs. So a simple, stopgap system, with some novel features, was devised for the novice user. Unfortunately, over the years, the app hasn&rsquo;t progressed and kept pace with modern user needs. Today, most every tech writer says: Use it, but don&rsquo;t trust it completely. This is an unfortunate situation.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For example, Time Machine doesn&rsquo;t, in normal operation, create a bootable backup of the internal drive. It can only restore a damaged (or new) internal drive from the Time Machine archive.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Next, there is no easily digestible, user accessible log file available for inspection within the Time Machine System Preference.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Finally, there is very little in the way of diagnostics or feedback to the user about the integrity of each backup. In other words, the user has no usable tools within Time Machine. that can be used to verify the integrity of the current backup other than a casual visual inspection. If a Time Machine backup gets hung up or mangled, most users are left in the dark and find themselves forced to start all over, regretting that a possible valuable archive needs to be overwritten.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Martellaro (via Katie Floyd): Apple&rsquo;s Time Machine backup system was born in a time (2006) when Apple realized that customers weren&rsquo;t routinely backing up their Macs. So a simple, stopgap system, with some novel features, was devised for the novice user. Unfortunately, over the years, the app hasn&rsquo;t progressed and kept pace with modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,30,1199,216],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13475,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}