Dissecting APFS and macOS Catalina with Mike Bombich

Carbon Copy Cloner developer – and APFS guru! – Mike Bombich joins John and Dave this week to talk APFS, backups, upgrades, and more. Listen as your two favorite geeks become your three favorite geeks, sharing everything they know plus some cool stuff found to kick it up a notch into the new year.Note: Shownotes are complete!

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00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 796 for Monday, January 6, 2020
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00:02:00 Mike Bombich from Bombich Software and Carbon Copy Cloner
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00:03:58 Graham-APFS Snapshots and Calculating Used Disk Space
00:19:29 Keith-QT-Tell Carbon Copy Cloner to sleep displays while running
- #!/bin/zsh
- pmset displaysleepnow
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00:27:40 Catalina Volume Groups
- Working with APFS Volume Groups
00:40:25 Can I delete my Data volume accidentally?
- APFS vs. HFS+ performance
00:43:21 Andrew-HFS+ vs. APFS for external SSDs
00:51:46 Andrew-How to avoid Bit Rot and Corruption?
- Backup Health Check
00:58:17 Gary-Performing a speed audit on my Mac?
- In kernel panics, look at Extensions in Backtrace
- Geekbench
- Black Magic Disk Speed Test
01:10:20 Encryption and Clones
01:13:28 CSF-Lockly Fingerprint/Code door locks and Tapplock Fingerprint padlocks
01:16:28 CSF-Smart Oil Gauge
01:20:34 MGG 796 Outtro
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