{"id":28121,"date":"2020-02-13T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28121"},"modified":"2020-02-13T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:24:41","slug":"macos-10-15-3-update-doesnt-create-apfs-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/macos-10-15-3-update-doesnt-create-apfs-snapshot\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 10.15.3 Update Doesn&rsquo;t Create APFS Snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/10-15-3-combo-security-updates-are-not-creating-backup-snapshots\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/10-15-3-combo-security-updates-are-not-creating-backup-snapshots\/\"><p>Something happened in the latest set of Apple updates released on January 28th. The Automatic Backup Snapshots are no longer working!!! At first, I thought it only happened on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/whats-new-in-the-macos-catalina-10-15-3-update-19d76\/\">10.15.3 Combo update<\/a>. I then checked the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-security-updates-mojave-2020-001-high-sierra-2020-001\/\">2020-001 Security Update on High Sierra<\/a> and it&rsquo;s not working either!<\/p><p>I found this out while I was writing another article on Catalina Logs. I built a 10.15.2 device and updated it to 10.15.3. I booted to recovery to restore the from the automatic snapshot only to find that it was missing!<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I am not totally sure what&rsquo;s going on here, if I had to guess this a bug. I wanted to let you know about this. The last thing you want to do is rely on that automatic backup snapshot only to find out it was never created.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plus, the installer apparently purges any snapshots that you made manually.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/macos-10-15-3\/\">macOS 10.15.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/13\/local-time-machine-uses-apfs-snapshots\/\">Local Time Machine Uses APFS Snapshots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Macintosh: Something happened in the latest set of Apple updates released on January 28th. The Automatic Backup Snapshots are no longer working!!! At first, I thought it only happened on the 10.15.3 Combo update. I then checked the 2020-001 Security Update on High Sierra and it&rsquo;s not working either!I found this out while I [&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":"2020-02-13T21:24:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"0aed806d-9e00-434f-acac-c888d60a07b2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-13T21:24:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACu2AbZ4AQ0-srMiI1goHsg","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":[1395,146,131,30,1666,216],"class_list":["post-28121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-backup","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121","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=28121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28122,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28121\/revisions\/28122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}