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My practice using Catalina was to backup daily using Time Machine. These daily backups were never overwritten in Catalina.
But now I'm using Monterey in two new M1 MBPs and just discovered (3 months later! gak) that my daily backups are gone!
Is there any option in Time Machine or do I have to get another backup program?
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full. The first backup might take a long time, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
There is no way to recover individual daily or hourly backups once they roll into the next "level," eg. hourly into daily, daily into weekly, etc. But, you shouldn't really need to do so either.
Time Machine was never designed to keep daily backups. If it was doing that, something wasn't working correctly.
Why would you want/need that? All changes, whether from hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly are all retained.
Untrue. I've been doing manual Time Machine backups as far back as I can remember. On numerous machines.
This change in Monterey - I'm not doing automatic backups, I'm doing manual backups. If they get overwritten/not preserved, my data is LOST.
I'm using LaCie rugged 1 TB. Is there any way to recover any of the backups?
I got the first M1 MBP in May and started manual backups on a new 5 TB LaCie rugged. I have no backups before August.
Then I got the second machine, identical except 1 TB hard drive. I haven't used or needed to backup the first machine since.
Time Machine in this second machine shows no backups at all before September.
My practice over 15 years using MBP and MBA has been to perform daily manual backups into the same or similar versions of LaCie, and for a couple years, a Passport. I have ALWAYS been able to go to the data I'm looking for on a given date. Always able to copy the data to my machines.
I don't always backup daily. I do a backup when I've made a significant alteration in the data on my machine. Which might be 3, 4 or 5 days a week, or maybe not for 2 weeks if I'm on vacation.
I am floored and flummoxed that I have lost more than 3 months of my hard work!
.I have ALWAYS been able to go to the data I'm looking for on a given date. Always able to copy the data to my machines.
Thats how Time Machine works. I don’t know why you would waste time manually backing up when Time Machine does it automatically.
And why would you think I don’t need long term external storage of my data?
Why do you think Time Machine default behavior doesn't provide long term external storage of your data?
Why are you even bothering to use Time Machine if you don't think it does what you want?
There is Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich ( CCC does everything you wish Time Machine did and more ! )
And why would you think I don’t need long term external storage of my data?
I need long term hard drive storage of 2 Tb per year. Not cloud based.
is there a way to preserve daily backups in Time Machine?
