

And some of them cite versions that I know have never been on this machine-bought it with Catalina and immediately put Big Sur on it before any backups. /api/cask/backuploupe.json (JSON API) Cask code on GitHub.

Backup when time interval is reached And/Or the computer is idle. Option to backup when the computer is idle. Update: find has been crawling the backups for more than 24 hours and has found some ist files, but the few I've looked at so far have seemingly contradictory contents. Features: Backup time interval options range from 10 minutes to 1 week. So the file in the latest backup is DIFFERENT than the file that Time Machine should have put there! Answer (1 of 3): 500GB of data is tough to restore at a time, but don’t be panicked. Yesterday, I had 11.something and now I have 12.0.1 which is what is stated in the file in my running system. In this article, we show the possibilities and give tips for using and managing Time Machine in macOS, even in the new version macOS 12.x (Monterey). I have found ist files in some of the backups, but all of them, from December 2020 till today say "10.15.7" and many of the backups have nothing but CoreServices.bundle in that director. When it comes to local data backup in macOS, Time Machine is still one of the most important tools. Is there a human-readable way to know what version of macOS was in a particular Time Machine backup (other than restoring it to use "About this Mac")?Ī related question is Determining OS X version from Time Machine backup but it is six years old, and if the answer was valid then, it is not valid for any of my backups which go back to December 2020. Answer (1 of 3): If System Preferences > Time Machine > Latest backup is a valid date, then you can rest easy knowing it has been completely backed up. The value you are interested in is 'Cache folder'.

Once you have decided to switch to BackupLoupe 3 you can remove the old caches: Locate your cache directory by opening the BackupLoupe preferences, Scanner tab. If I go to ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync in my boot system or in a Time Machine backup, I can look in Backup/*/ist to find what versions of iOS were backed up. To ensure that BackupLoupe 3 can be tested without interfering with BackupLoupe 2 old indices are not touched.
