The Time Machine service in macOS Server 5.2 hasn’t changed much from the service in previous operating systems. To enable the Time Machine service, open the Server app, click on Time Machine in the SERVICES sidebar. If the service hasn’t been enabled to date, the ON/OFF switch will be in the OFF position and no “Backup destination” will be shown in the Settings pane. Click on the ON button to see the New Destination screen, used to configure a list of volumes as a destinations for Time Machine backups. The selection volume should be large enough to have space for all of the users that can potentially use the Time Machine…
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More on Retrospect 8 Utility Scripts
My last post showed how to do grooming in Retrospect 8. There were a ton of questions about what exactly grooming is. Think about it this way, Retrospect backup scripts use snapshots. If you do a backup without a recycle 20 times, then you have 20 snapshots. If you changed a 1 gig file every day then you’ll have 20 gigs taken up by that one file. Now let’s say that you groom away 10 of those backups by setting a grooming policy of 10. Now you have only 10 gigs taken up by that file. So any file not required for the 10 last backups will be removed from…
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Mac Backups: HFS+
Tivoli, Backup Exec, NetBackup – they don’t backup resource forks. So if you need your resource forks (and you probably do) then look towards a Mac backup app, like Retrospect, Bakbone, Atempo or Archiware.