I am attempting to make use of Time Machine to again up my Mac (Ventura 13.5) onto an exterior SSD (“BackupSSD”). Surprisingly, many of the backup folders look like on the interior arduous drive in /Volumes/.timemachine as an alternative of the exterior SSD’s mountpoint /Volumes/BackupSSD 1. (I am not speaking about native snapshots, that are accurately in /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots.) Can anybody clarify what is going on on? I wish to be sure that if my inner drive dies, the exterior SSD alone can obtain an entire system restore.
After I view recordsdata by the Finder or Time Machine’s UI, issues look nice. The Time Machine menu says backups are going to the exterior SSD, “BackupSSD”, on my Mac, niffler:
And Finder tells me the backups are in the best place:
However once I run tmutil listbackups, the backups look like on the interior drive in /Volumes/.timemachine:
% tmutil listbackups
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-122149.backup/2023-08-26-122149.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-135115.backup/2023-08-26-135115.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-153333.backup/2023-08-26-153333.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-165131.backup/2023-08-26-165131.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-175142.backup/2023-08-26-175142.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-185217.backup/2023-08-26-185217.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-195206.backup/2023-08-26-195206.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-205201.backup/2023-08-26-205201.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-215213.backup/2023-08-26-215213.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-225216.backup/2023-08-26-225216.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-26-235219.backup/2023-08-26-235219.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-005241.backup/2023-08-27-005241.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-015245.backup/2023-08-27-015245.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-025314.backup/2023-08-27-025314.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-035324.backup/2023-08-27-035324.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-045328.backup/2023-08-27-045328.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-055341.backup/2023-08-27-055341.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-065345.backup/2023-08-27-065345.backup
/Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/2023-08-27-075346.backup/2023-08-27-075346.backup
If I look inside “/Volumes/BackupSSD 1”, I see solely a single backup listing:
$ ls -l /Volumes/BackupSSD 1
whole 24
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 07:53 2023-08-27-075346.earlier/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 9433 Aug 27 07:53 backup_manifest.plist
the place I see a number of directories in /Volumes/.timemachine:
$ ls -l /Volumes/.timemachine
whole 0
drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 704 Aug 27 07:56 060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC/
$ ls -l /Volumes/.timemachine/060F4496-481F-4D98-8AB7-5CD03FEB24EC
drwxrwxr-x@ 4 root wheel 128 Aug 26 12:21 2023-08-26-122149.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 13:51 2023-08-26-135115.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 15:33 2023-08-26-153333.backup/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64 Aug 26 15:54 2023-08-26-155223.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 16:51 2023-08-26-165131.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 17:51 2023-08-26-175142.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 18:52 2023-08-26-185217.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 19:52 2023-08-26-195206.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 20:52 2023-08-26-205201.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 21:52 2023-08-26-215213.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 22:52 2023-08-26-225216.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 26 23:52 2023-08-26-235219.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 00:52 2023-08-27-005241.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 01:52 2023-08-27-015245.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 02:53 2023-08-27-025314.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 03:53 2023-08-27-035324.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 04:53 2023-08-27-045328.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 05:53 2023-08-27-055341.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 06:53 2023-08-27-065345.backup/
drwxrwxr-x@ 5 root wheel 160 Aug 27 07:53 2023-08-27-075346.backup/
So the query is: the place are my backups, actually? If my Mac’s inner drive dies, does the SSD actually have every little thing it must do a full restore?
Thanks very a lot.
