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How can I see how large each Time Machine backup is in APFS?
You can use the third-party tool BackupLoupe to find out what's taking up the most storage in your Time Machine backups.
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Time Machine - delete entire specific volume's history
Thanks to Gilby in comments, it's true that tmutil can use wildcards, which felt like it ought to make the task easier.
However, I realised during this investigation that tmutil gives an error Invalid ...
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"This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available", but there is almost nothing in iCloud (260MB of 5GB used)
I have an open case with Apple on my phone. It’s saying it needs more space than it has. (Can’t back up to cloud which has twice the space of the phone total free and can’t back up to Mac with twice ...
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rsync listing directory with no changes
The rsync command you're using: rsync -av ...
If you refer to man rsync, note the following:
-a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H)
In other words: -a implies the options:...
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How to backup multiple Macs with a single USB drive without attaching to network?
Time Machine (pre macOS 11) used HFS+ formatted backup disks with a different folder for each backup. But with macOS 11 and 12, new backups use APFS formatted volumes - note a volume for each backup, ...
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Using rsync to backup
It's August, 2022; This is an updated answer:
Before getting into the answer here, you must know that although an rsync binary is included with macOS, it is now an ancient, 16-year-old software ...
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