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Network backups are usually 5x or more slower so if you can’t find time when a direct attached backup will complete - the interruptions will make it very unlikely you can have a coherent backup. … With the new hardware, you should have very good data on how long a backup to the SSD takes and then can decide if the slowdown on network backup will help you. …

Any spinning hard drive should be sufficient since Time Machine runs in efficiency cores on Apple silicon and in the background on all CPU architecture. I don’t think you’ll find any way to speed thin …

For disaster recovery, I would want a bootable USB, hard copy of the instructions for an erase install and your local backup on two external hard drives. …

Decide if the backup is more important than whatever is syncing. You can look at iCloud files from a browser or another device to ensure anything you need is synced. … Initiate a manual backup. If that fails, you will have to consult the other answers on non-iCloud synced files like OneDrive or Adobe Cloud or reach out to Apple support. …

and since macOS's APFS snapshots seem like a moving target in terms of being able to utilize them how you like, why not use a backup tool (e.g. … Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper) to create a backup of your own (e.g. a sparsebundle), and then rsync to sync it how you like? …

https://eclecticlight.co/consolation-t2m2-and-log-utilities/ It knows a lot about reading the logs and the backup to determine how long a backup took, how much data was transferred, and why an incremental … backup doesn’t take up all the space that you see in finder if you ask it for a folder size measurement. …

The backup space estimate (like the estimate that’s made for enough free space to upgrade) can be wrong, and it’s almost always wrong by over estimating the data. … data) and get a short, good clean backup. …

If you can not upgrade the iPadOS then Apple Support would be needed if the backup is in iCloud. … Either way, support specializes in this sort of question and you don’t need Apple Care to get backup and restore help. Also, check with the entity that did the repair. …

I would disconnect from all networks and restart your Mac and connect only the backup destination (if it's reachable via network, you will need to ensure that network has no way to get to the internet … Then run a backup to make sure everything is clear. Once that backup is complete you can reconnect to the internet and let iCloud sync resume and block backups until the sync down is done. …

You're almost certainly out of luck due to macOS APFS copy on write functionality and how excel writes binary files to recover the actual saved version. Look in the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.mic …

Spare bulk drives are cheap, my time or a wrong guess aren't so I spend on resources to insulate me from a single failure on the backup side. … Also I would consider a direct backup instead of network - they are more reliable in my testing and experience - but I'll assume you have a very good reason why network backup is your thing. …

The operating system and the apps themselves do not backup. …

Here are places you might have a backup copy. iCloud (you can look online with a web browser and a computer) Time Machine backups if Mac sync or backup the phone data. … Contact Apple Support in case they can see an iCloud backup that you can not. …

As to your main question, fire up migration assistant to bring back apps, settings or user files from the backup. … If you only want specific files, use Time Machine to browse the available files from that backup. …

While you are researching this, start a new backup on the new disk. Set aside the old one until you’re sure you no longer need those backups, then decide to archive it or erase it. … This backup system is designed to optimize time to restore and to dramatically conserve space on disk, not to be quick to copy a destination. …