ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance

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  • asimov

    Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups

  • I have found that Asimov alleviates this issue.

    https://github.com/stevegrunwell/asimov

    I wrote a tiny blurb about it here:

    https://nabeards.com/time-machine-backups-ignoring-npm-modul...

  • tmutils

    Time Machine utilities for Mac to import a backup history, mark individual snapshot directories as valid for the current computer, and deduplicate files in parallel directories (e.g., between snapshot directories).

  • Most Time Machine weirdness comes down to metadata mismatches after migrating from machine to machine.

    I made some fairly simple shell scripts to help fix these issues.

    https://github.com/torstenvl/tmutils

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • arq_restore

    command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

  • People who want something similar may want to look at Arq [1]. Similar to restic, it provides incremental encrypted backups to most cloud providers (or a machine with SSH). But it is a Mac app, making it easy to configure and maintain. I never had issues with data corruption so far.

    Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them, just a happy user for 9 years.

    [1] https://www.arqbackup.com

  • borg-backup-exclusions-macos

    Exclusion rules for Borg Backup catered to macOS

  • Yes... you might find this useful: info on Exclusions [1] and Snapshots [2]

    [1] https://github.com/SterlingHooten/borg-backup-exclusions-mac...

  • Yes... you might find this useful: info on Exclusions [1] and Snapshots [2]

    [1] https://github.com/SterlingHooten/borg-backup-exclusions-mac...

  • borg-tm

    Use borg and APFS snapshot to backup your Mac

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