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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1896155" data-attributes="member: 83420">It may be that my understanding of the purpose of Time Machine is flawed.&nbsp; I have always felt that its principal use was the ability to recover data which has been inadvertently lost, corrupted or deleted.I cannot understand why some people keep TM backups spanning years.&nbsp; If the data is so precious, it should be stored on EHDs dedicated to that purpose with additional backups to Cloud services.&nbsp; I do not think that TM is designed for long-time BU.Working on this - possibly erroneous principal - I reformat one of my two my EHDs as APFS after each Upgrade, retaining the other until I am satisfied that all is well; then reformat the second EHD in a similar fashion.I occasionally do this as well, after what I regard as a substantial Update.@LIAB, would you consider undertaking a small experiment?&nbsp; Take a fresh EHD, reformat as APFS and see if your Mac will complete a full and normal BU in normal mode (not Safe Mode).From my limited understanding of the current M1 problems, they seem to be related to TC or other Network systems; or adding to existing TM BUs - (I am aware that I am repeating what Jake already proffered).Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1896155, member: 83420"] It may be that my understanding of the purpose of Time Machine is flawed. I have always felt that its principal use was the ability to recover data which has been inadvertently lost, corrupted or deleted. I cannot understand why some people keep TM backups spanning years. If the data is so precious, it should be stored on EHDs dedicated to that purpose with additional backups to Cloud services. I do not think that TM is designed for long-time BU. Working on this - possibly erroneous principal - I reformat one of my two my EHDs as APFS after each Upgrade, retaining the other until I am satisfied that all is well; then reformat the second EHD in a similar fashion. I occasionally do this as well, after what I regard as a substantial Update. @LIAB, would you consider undertaking a small experiment? Take a fresh EHD, reformat as APFS and see if your Mac will complete a full and normal BU in normal mode (not Safe Mode). From my limited understanding of the current M1 problems, they seem to be related to TC or other Network systems; or adding to existing TM BUs - (I am aware that I am repeating what Jake already proffered). Ian [/QUOTE]

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