Notices by James Atkinson (jimmyjamesuk@mastodon.social)

@WarnerCrocker @mjtsai @siracusa I’m not sure that proves anything. That being said I always hope for more file system attention, and we haven’t t had a file system session for 7 years, which is disappointing.

@WarnerCrocker @mjtsai @siracusa ok. We’ve had apfs backups for just over 5 years I think. Since Big Sur? Hard to draw many conclusions from that period of time. Certainly hfs+ backups were much more unreliable.

@WarnerCrocker @mjtsai @siracusa so you disagree with John that it happens after a year or so. Interesting. What work have you done to narrow this down to TM?

@atpfm the Time Machine discourse in the past couple of weeks has been bizarre. Stating it corrupts itself regularly is a very strange thing to conclude, even with anecdata. Even more so given the often praised cloning alternatives use the same mechanisms.

@siracusa The claim was that TM gets corrupted over time.These are just snapshots on an apfs volume. SD and CCC must be using these same mechanisms. In any case what on earth do you think these apps use to copy? Magic? It’s either asr or the file copy apis. The claim that TM corrupts itself is unsubstantiated. Feel free to ask Howard Oakley.