Could the first obvious improvement please be its speed? My god. The local Time Machine backup is slower on a 10gb network than Backblaze over the Internet. It isn’t even close.

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rgovostes 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I reinstalled my system and attempted for weeks to get Time Machine to complete a first backup. Every time I started it, the progress bar would fill up about 60% and then stall, and eventually kernel panic if the system was left idle for hours. Never happened before I reinstalled, though I have had it randomly decide the backup is corrupt and it has to start over. macOS deserves a better first-party backup feature.

	▲	lostlogin 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I have had it randomly decide the backup is corrupt and it has to start over. I have hit this too many times.

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varenc 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I backup ~3-4GB a day with Time Machine to my local NAS and it takes less 10 minutes. Albeit it should take 30 seconds if it was maxing out the network speed.

	▲	lostlogin 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve done the sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0. But it’s still slow. 10 minutes is great, and my changes wouldn’t seem as extensive as yours. I need to dig deeper.

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dangus 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Asking for anything out of Time Machine is a lost cause. It’s essentially a completed and legacy product.

I migrated to Linux + Pika Backup. For photos I use Ente Photos with their managed cloud storage plus a continuous export to my NAS.

Ente is surprisingly well integrated with iOS, you really don’t need to use Apple’s solution. It automatically backs up photos I take in the background.