Apple Time Machine is the built-in backup system for macOS. The problem is that it’s not very good. Having used it for ten years, it consistently fails to verify its own backups. So, the idea that you have this rich history of incremental backups is often not true as it fails and has to start again.
It also takes up a ridiculous amount of disk space. Given that Apple only ship their Macs with 512 GB of SSD, taking up most of that to run a backup is not ideal.
Maybe it could use a different disk. But then it goes confused about how much storage is available. It thinks there is less than 100 GB available:
But I actually had 4 TB available:
I hope Apple sort all of this out at some stage.
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