I am looking for a strategy to create Time Machine backups that I can nonetheless browse sooner or later from machines that aren’t the one which created the backup (or from different customers). My foremost challenge it appears is with permissions, however I could not discover any good steering on-line legitimate for the way in which TM works because the change to APFS.
I lately obtained a brand new mac and seen that backups created on my outdated MacBook usually are not accessible (purple icon indicating lack of permissions). My outdated MacBook was working Ventura (nonetheless an intel machine from 2017). The exterior drive is APFS formatted. How can I be certain when creating backups on an APFS TM quantity that I can browse them sooner or later.
A number of particulars for context:
I didn’t use Migration Assistant to switch the data over from the Time Machine quantity to my new MacBook. Each infrequently I like to start out contemporary and use the transfer to a brand new machine as a welcome alternative to do a spring-cleaning, reviewing all my settings and knowledge, manually recreate settings, discard stuff that I do not use anymore and so on. That additionally means shifting my information first to in a separate “Transferred” folder after which step-by-step integrating them again into Paperwork, Photos, Music, and so on.
So that is what I did this time. I arrange my new MacBook with none migrating. However when it got here to accessing the information from the backup I seen that since I am on a brand new machine, new person, I haven’t got permissions for these information. And since it is the brand new APFS TM quantity, which is read-only for regular people, I am unable to change permissions both. The workaround I did was to make use of Migration Assistant to create a brand new person on my new machine, then transfer all information I needed from that person to the “Shared” folder, from there transfer them to the brand new foremost person that I had already arrange, after which delete the migrated person (there’s sadly no means to make use of Migration Assistant for under shifting information, it at all times forces you to repeat the library folder over).
Now I am hoping to both create backups in such a means that I can entry them from any machine/person or discover a straightforward means of accessing them a posteriori. The use case isn’t essentially migrating to a brand new machine (there are workarounds just like the one described above), however slightly the chance to sometimes browse previous disks, whether or not to retrieve an outdated file, or simply for nostalgic functions, how did I set up my information 10 years in the past?, what packages did I take advantage of?, what was I engaged on?, and so on. I nonetheless have outdated backups from 2008 (all contained in sparsebundles) that I sometimes entry. I at all times encrypt my exterior onerous drives with a password, so when it comes to knowledge security, I do not want the extra layer of safety with permissions (which might be circumvented by admin accounts anyhow).
Any ideas of make TM backups these days that may stay accessible from any machine/person? I do not want to have the ability to “browse” them by means of time machine’s interface (which hasn’t labored reliably for very outdated backups anyhow). Actually I would favor to have the choice entry them as I used to by means of the Finder’s folder construction – so long as I’ve permissions to take action.