Time Machine Successful Backup

[CheMillan]

Time Machine successfully completed a full backup of my M1 MacBook Air. I used a Thunderbolt 3 NVMe external drive formatted APFS connected to the Thunderbolt/USB4 port for the backup. My M1 MacBook Air has macOS Monterey 12.2.1 installed.

 

[chabig]

I read your post on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey 12.2.1!

 

[jdb8167]

Time Machine successfully completed a full backup of my M1 MacBook Air. I used a Thunderbolt 3 NVMe external drive formatted APFS connected to the Thunderbolt/USB4 port for the backup. My M1 MacBook Air has macOS Monterey 12.2.1 installed.

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Is this unusual or something? Mine does this many times a day.

 

[Chevysales]

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Is this unusual or something? Mine does this many times a day.

same.

 

[CheMillan]

I’ve read reports of Time Machine failing to complete backups for M1 Mac users. For many years I’ve relied on CCC and SuperDuper for backups and have never used Time Machine until yesterday. So I conducted a test to see what the problem was. I connected a Thunderbolt 3 NVMe external drive to my M1 MacBook Air and Time Machine was able to complete a backup in 7 minutes with no errors or issues.

 

[FarmerBob]

I've used CCC forever until it totally screwed up an upgrade to new drives in my tower.

I've used SuperDuper. There are a couple of threads here that have a lot of suggestions that I have never heard of that worked for the poster.

But found out that the only way to get M$ and other snobbish software licenses to transfer without issue is "Time Machine".