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Beware Monterey Time machine problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1895566" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>It depends on your backup strategy. The intent of Time Machine is to have incremental backups of changed files going back as far as storage permits so that you can recover something you may have deleted or modified since it was backed up. I've done this a few times over the years... recovered a version of a file from a backup done a few weeks or even several months earlier. If I was to wipe my entire backup history now, and a week from now found a file I needed was corrupt, or needed an older version of it due to unwanted changes, well if those changes happened over a week earlier, I wouldn't be able to recover it. So Time Machine isn't JUST a backup. It's literally a way to go back in time to recover something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1895566, member: 38864"] It depends on your backup strategy. The intent of Time Machine is to have incremental backups of changed files going back as far as storage permits so that you can recover something you may have deleted or modified since it was backed up. I've done this a few times over the years... recovered a version of a file from a backup done a few weeks or even several months earlier. If I was to wipe my entire backup history now, and a week from now found a file I needed was corrupt, or needed an older version of it due to unwanted changes, well if those changes happened over a week earlier, I wouldn't be able to recover it. So Time Machine isn't JUST a backup. It's literally a way to go back in time to recover something. [/QUOTE]
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