ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance

Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by Eric_WVGG on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:28PM (#36475023)

I also use CCC — in addition to Time Machine, running on a tiny little SD card sitting flush inside the laptop. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1687325-REG/transcend...

CCC is great, but it doesn’t back up in near-real time and doesn’t do versioning. It wouldn’t have saved my butt while I was on the road last Friday like “built-in” Time Machine in my SD slot did.

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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by yurishimo on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:28AM (#36477921)

How reliable do you find it? I suppose if it's just for catastrophic emergencies, it will probably work through needing to use it. I'm guessing it will fail to write before it fails to read.

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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:38AM (#36489608)

Probably? But two or three years for a fifty dollar chip is nothing to sniff at.

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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by msephton on Monday June 26, 2023 @09:02AM (#36479186)

How does this work with mounting/unmounting, power cycling, etc.

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Re:ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:38AM (#36489610)

It doesn’t unmount unless you eject it. No issues with power cycling.

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