![]() ![]() But the problem is definitely NOT generic to M1, or Monterey, but specific to your setup. It could always be that you got a machine with issues. If you can mount the PC location to either of the Macs, Chronosync can read it, copy it to wherever you want it and then send you an email that it is done.Īs for the slowdowns on the M1, I still think it wise to have Apple test it for you. They have a 15-day free trial so you can experiment with it. It can be scheduled to run automatically, so you can let it run overnight and not worry about how long it takes because it won't impact you at all. I use it to make copies of my camera images to multiple drives once a week. There is a third party product called Chronosync ( ) that can take care of the moves for you without you being involved in it. I just got curious as to why my backups are sometimes so slow on the M1 MBP but not on the mini. It is a bit of a mess but everything seems to work okay. I also currently have my old Mojave MBP and another FW800 RAID array in another location and cart my and my wife's MBPs and associated HDs back and forth. My system goes back to the old Powerebook days and has just sort of evolved. I didn't really want to get into all of this. ![]() I recognize that "good practice" would be to have two 1TB drives to alternate for Time Machine, at least until Apple figures out how to delete old backups when you run out of space, but I already have five 4-6TB USB3 drives and I just don't want to buy any more. I used to do the same with my MBP but the FW drive is still HFS+ and Monterey can't back up to it. To complicate things I also Time Machine backup my wife's MBP to a sparsebundle on the mini over the network. At its best it can copy the file from the PC in a few minutes and from it to the data HD in a minute. I use the flash drive because it is faster. I just dismount the drive on the MBP and mount it on the mini to do the FW800 backup. Sometimes I copy it over the network and sometimes I use a flash drive.ĥ. I run a simulator on the PC and copy the data from that to the Track Data HD on the MBP. The HD that is being moved is a data drive. I partitioned the disk because I happened to have it and didn't want to buy two more 1TB drives. Apparently Monterey doesn't free up space the way it is supposed to so this is a work-around. When one gets full I erase the other and switch to it. The Time Machine Drive is 4TB and I don't want that many backups so I have four "containers". BTW, the backup is a sparsebundle which also might slow things. I am using SD! to backup from one APFS drive to another APFS drive. I use a Thunderbolt to USB3 adapter to connect to the flash drive and to both HDs. To complicate matters, sometimes I use the network to copy the file from the PC to the external HD but it is much slower.Ģ. I still recommend getting a dedicated TM drive and stop sharing the TM drive through the partition scheme.Ĭlick to expand.1. No flash drive, no sneaker net and much easier situation. And both the MBP and Mini have the file on it, as now. TM will backup the file from the MBP as normal course of action, so that's covered. In fact, all that will be left is the backup from the Mini using SD! to the RAID array. Now you can use Windows to copy the file from the PC to those two shared locations and cut out several steps. No need for sneaker net, no need for SD! Just use sharing and let the PC see the two locations on the two Macs over the network. First, if the PC, MBP and Mini are all in your home network, you can use the network to move the file from the PC to the MBP as well as to the Mini. If I understand this Rube Goldberg system, there are lots of ways to make it better. Now you use SD! again, but this time under Mojave on a mini to back the same HD to a raid array on a slower FW800 system. Which HD is being moved? The TM HD, or the in-between HD that you copied the file from the PC to? (I'm starting to lose the thread in this crazy chain again.)ĥ. Doesn't have to be fast, since backups are low priority anyway.)Ĥ. Having multiple partitions on the drive CAN be done, but still is a lousy practice. I seem to recall you bringing this drive up before when you wanted to be able to use it for more than TM and that you were advised at that time not to do that. What formats on both of those, please? (BTW, it's not a great idea to use the TM drive for anything else. ![]() Then you use SD! to back up from one external drive to another. If that is the case, what is the interface on the external drive and what is the format of that drive?ģ. I presume you then plug this flash drive into an adapter on the M1 MBP to read it and copy from it to another external drive also mounted on the same MBP. What format flash drive? I'm sort of betting it's exFAT as that is one that is usable by both Windows on the PC and macOS on the MBP.Ģ. ![]() More questions than answers at this point.ġ. ![]()
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