Time Machine

“macOS may wait for idle time, may prioritize internal disk and the backup will go extremely slow on an HDD”

“I've restored a laptop from a timemachine backup and it came back damn nearly identical and that was magical.”

“It just stores the backup information on your local storage and then transfers it over to the actual backup target when it's back online.”

“Time Machine makes it trivial except when it falls on it face and has to start over.”

“I convinced my mom to setup Time Machine as a backup, so at least she'd have something”

“I've not had a problem with Time Machine in years across multiple MacBooks in my household.”

“I've been using Time Machine for six months pointing to a network share on my TrueNAS box and it has worked fine”

“this is happening every time on one machine (Intel iMac), and semi-regularly on another one”

“TM heavily throttles disk I/O used for backing up in order to ensure that normal user activity isn't affected”

“TM has been working reasonably well for me to back up 10 TB over SMB to a Synology NAS.”

“Time Machine to a network share via Samba has been pretty reliable for me - only once has it corrupted itself”

“the snapshots were available in Finder itself so you could browse through the files you wanted and retrieve them”

“a key DB file inside the Photo library which Time Machine omitted from all backups and prevented me from restoring the library”

“Then would silently fail/stop working, or just tell you that it had stopped working and that whatever you had in it was no longer accessible.”

“It works and everything comes back to an identical state of the snapshot.”

“And if Time Machine kicks in, there goes any form of performance since Apple can't seem to figure out what a 'background task' is.”

“Time machine isn't great but it's ok. It gets stuck if you don't have enough disk space.”

“I heard in the past that Time Machine backups would inevitably become corrupt because of a fundamental defect.”

“I don't really give Apple many points for Time Machine because (1) I don't think many people use it”

“Apple Time Machine is fast, as it does not need to walk through the whole filesystem to find changed files.”

“it's worked 100% fine for me and saved my butt a few times”

“it's been working great for me since it was introduced in 2007”

“It made backups into a nice experience that were accessible to everyone.”

“it's actually more reliable in my experience to use the encrypted sparse bundle”

“When backing up to a local system it is extremely useable and reliable.”

“My biggest gripes with Time Machine are the lack of visibility, the silent failures and the inflexible scheduling.”

“The problem is them fucking up. Every other popular backup solution that does it does it just fine. And doesn't hide failures silently”

“Sometimes, Time Machine just goes stupid and I have to wipe the drive and start over.”

“This is safer because it doesn't require the file system to support anything fancy like symlinks or case-insensitive unicode file names.”

“something I feel can be improved upon with a bit more visibility in to the status”

“Time Machine has a reputation for silent failures and corruption issues that have frustrated users for years.”

“Time Machine backups to a samba share on the Linux box would get you both the Photos library database and the iCloud Drive stuff.”

“setting up a Time Machine backup is aggressively recommended by OS level notifications”

“he could just use Time Machine to some sort of NAS and get a more streamlined version of the above”

“they are generous enough to allow it to work with a non-apple NAS setup”

“I used to have problems with the TM db files becoming corrupted on my NAS, but that hasn't happened in at least five years.”

“Wish it didn't require this extra effort in the first place, but much better than having to nuke and pave every time.”

“rock solid for ten years for my wife, who is an ordinary user”

“It works as advertised and does so quietly and without much input.”

“Version 1 of Time Machine was great, you could travel to the past and see how your documents looked like!”