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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1802142" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK, did some digging and there is a way to find the snapshots. Not obvious, but in the sidebar of the main window there is a listing of drives attached. If you click on one of them, the main window is replaced by the snapshot information on that drive, along with information about the tasks that read from or write to that drive. I did't see how to tune the snapshot retention, and the snapshots seem very small compared to what the email reports say has been moved, but maybe they have some incredible compression going on.Still, I'm not as confident of the utility of the safety net in this configuration as it was in the old. I think for historical backups, TM is going to be the main tool, with CCC relegated to just an emergency bootable disk. That's a change in priority for me, as I previously depended on Safety Net more than TM, but I've moved my TM backup to a RAID array, so I have multiple copies of the TM database. I'm paranoid about losing drives, having already lost an internal and backup drive on the same day, losing pictures and other data because of that failure. So now I have multiple copies of my backups and multiple backup methods and my important stuff is stored in four different locations, including one outside of my house.&nbsp; As I said, I'm paranoid, but that doesn't mean they aren't out to get me!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1802142, member: 396914"] OK, did some digging and there is a way to find the snapshots. Not obvious, but in the sidebar of the main window there is a listing of drives attached. If you click on one of them, the main window is replaced by the snapshot information on that drive, along with information about the tasks that read from or write to that drive. I did't see how to tune the snapshot retention, and the snapshots seem very small compared to what the email reports say has been moved, but maybe they have some incredible compression going on. Still, I'm not as confident of the utility of the safety net in this configuration as it was in the old. I think for historical backups, TM is going to be the main tool, with CCC relegated to just an emergency bootable disk. That's a change in priority for me, as I previously depended on Safety Net more than TM, but I've moved my TM backup to a RAID array, so I have multiple copies of the TM database. I'm paranoid about losing drives, having already lost an internal and backup drive on the same day, losing pictures and other data because of that failure. So now I have multiple copies of my backups and multiple backup methods and my important stuff is stored in four different locations, including one outside of my house. As I said, I'm paranoid, but that doesn't mean they aren't out to get me! [/QUOTE]

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