{"id":50930,"date":"2026-02-05T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50930"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:17:53","slug":"time-machine-in-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/05\/time-machine-in-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine in Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2026\/01\/15\/how-time-machine-backups-can-fail-silently\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2026\/01\/15\/how-time-machine-backups-can-fail-silently\/\">\n<p>Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. [&#8230;] I think this results from Time Machine&rsquo;s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you do just set it and forget it, you will come to regret it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/til\/2026\/02\/01\/1630\">Rui Carmo<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46848699\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/til\/2026\/02\/01\/1630\">\n<p>Today, after a minor disaster with my Obsidian vault, I decided to restore from Time Machine, and&#8230; I realized that it had silently broken across both my Tahoe machines.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It just stopped doing backups, silently. No error messages, no notifications, nothing. Just no backups for around two months.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After some research, I found out that the issue is with Apple&rsquo;s unilateral decision to change their SMB defaults (without apparently notifying anyone), and came across a few possible fixes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/time-machine-in-sequoia\/\">Time Machine in Sequoia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. [&#8230;] I think this results from Time Machine&rsquo;s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. [&#8230;] If you do just set it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-05T19:17:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"b7b9b623-953b-457c-a793-893077c0a8ce","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-05T19:17:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/At7m2I5U7RXynk4kwd8Cozg","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":[146,30,2742,2029,216],"class_list":["post-50930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-server-message-block-smb","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930","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=50930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50931,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50930\/revisions\/50931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}