dpom , vor 25 Tagen

@fasterthanlime TM backups are easily corrupted. After years of issues, I no longer trust them as a primary/only backup. For file-level backups I use Arq to Google Cloud's archive storage class, which is quite affordable and much more reliable if you actually need it.

fasterthanlime OP , vor 25 Tagen

@dpom Giving Arq a try right now — it’s faster to backup to AWS S3 Glacier with Flexible Retrieval than it is to write to this microSD card 🥲

Thanks for the recommendation!

dpom , vor 25 Tagen

@fasterthanlime Glad to help! Some day Apple will give Time Machine the attention it needs, but for now it's just the absolute cruftiest :)

webology , vor 25 Tagen

@fasterthanlime Over the last few years, I switched my machines over to NVMe drives, which are noiseless and faster than they really need to be. They were also reasonably priced if you shop for deals.

Here is my write-up in case it's interesting. https://micro.webology.dev/2024/03/28/on-backups-and.html