In no particular order: Prologue [0] - iOS Audiobook player, used Plex as a media source Overcast [1] - iOS Podcast player CleanShotX [2] - macOS screenshot/video/gif capture with annotation Drafts [3] - iOS/macOS note taking tool Paprika [4] - Cross platform recipe app YNAB [5] - "You Need A Budget" - web/mobile budgeting app 1Password [6] - Cross platform password manager Carrot Weather [7] - iOS weather app... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Favourite tool - Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ Spent too many hours trying to fix broken TM backups to trust it and newer OS versions have no verification option or user API documents... Source: 6 months ago

I would forget about using the Disk Utility Restore function and download a 30 trial copy of Carbon Copy Cloner which can clone your internal SSD to the new external one. Just be advised you will need to use the Legacy option to make the clone since the default CCC cloning function now is “Data Only”. To select the legacy option Click on the Destination selector and choose "Legacy Bootable Copy Assistant". Source: 11 months ago

If you're willing to switch programs, I believe Carbon Copy Cloner does verifications as well. Source: 11 months ago

My advice to retain your sanity: stop using Time Machine and use Carbon Copy Cloner [0] instead. It works. It keeps working. It has excellent documentation for any possible backup and restore cases. It is transparent about what it is doing. Time Machine works fine until it doesn't. And it won't tell you that a backup is broken until you try to restore from it. The errors are going to be cryptic. There is going to... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

Dar is the only tool I know of that supports incremental backups to untrusted remote storage. All the remote sees are giant encrypted blobs. Source: about 1 year ago

DAR is a linux tool that does incremental updates after a snapshot: http://dar.linux.free.fr/. Source: about 1 year ago

I have also used dar ( http://dar.linux.free.fr/ ) instead of tar for recent disk archives. Source: over 1 year ago

Dar - Like tar, but can do incremental and differential backups with rsync-style binary diffs, only archiving what's changed (and without trusting mtimes like tar --newer does). Source: almost 2 years ago

Write compressed, encrypted, sliced archives of the lvm snapshot to HDDs mounted via USB using dar Dar will pause to change HDD every few TiB. Source: about 2 years ago