Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017)

Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by carlob on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:19PM (#16260700)

I'm gonna answer these myself. Apparently sudo tmutil snapshot is the local snapshot, not the remote backup and it has existed as a verb since way before APFS existed. So now I guess the question is: did the implementation of local snapshots change with APFS?

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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by thought_alarm on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:23PM (#16260725)

Yes. They talked about APFS and the new local Time Machine implementation at WWDC.

You can view the dates of your local snapshots dates with:

    tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates /

I have one from last week, two from yesterday, and two from today.

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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by mrpippy on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:29PM (#16260768)

Yes, I'm pretty sure it did. I seem to remember one of the APFS sessions at WWDC (either 2016 or 2017) had a demo about how local TM snapshots used to work (really kind of a hack), and how APFS would improve the situation dramatically.

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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by rconti on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:34PM (#16260815)

Does anyone happen to know if the new Time Machine backups are automagically better (upgraded), or should I start over with a fresh backup destination?

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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by thought_alarm on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:38PM (#16260842)

The new implementation only applies to local time machine backups. Backups to external drives have not changed.

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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by ssalazars on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:03PM (#16261027)

Is there a way to move this backup to any other storage mechanism, say Dropbox?

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