There are some extremely cheap enclosures and some relatively expensive enclosures. "Is putting an internal HDD into an enclosure pretty much the same as buying an external HDD, functionally, and would it be cheaper?" Stash that somewhere, preferably off-site. Then buy another one that's roughly the size of your normal everyday non-Time Machine hard drive to put into an enclosure, and once a month run Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to create a bootable clone of your hard drive on it. That's pretty much what I suggest: Buy an inexpensive, large hard drive for Time Machine. It'd be even smarter, of course, to take periodic system snapshots on an external device in addition to Time Machine versioning, and store those at the office or in the in-laws' garage. It's not unreasonable to use internal storage to run your versioning filesystem. Time Machine is backup for end users, who want mitigation of their own frequent screwups. Time Machine isn't backup for system administrators, who want disaster recovery and protection from every conceivable category of failure. It does let you pull out that batch of photos you deleted in April because you thought you'd already printed them for grandma. But it does let you go back and retrieve the version of a given file from this morning, because you overwrote it or threw it away. Does a versioned filesystem stored on an internal device protect you from theft or a certain category of hardware failures? No, of course it doesn't. It's the repository for a versioned file history. Time Machine isn't really "backup" in the sense you're talking about. Seriously, the dumbest thing in the world you can do with a Time Machine store is to remove it from the machine, because then it's not doing the one thing that makes Time Machine worth running in preference to some other backup solution: continuous backup. Here is an excerpt with the crashing thread's backtrace: Thread 3 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: answer: "There is no point to having a "backup" destination hard drive that lives inside your PC., you would let time machine synchronize and then unplug it and put it in a safe or take it off-site."ĭo you know what Apple's Time Machine is? No? Then don't show off your ignorance here, because there absolutely is a point to doing what Joleta plans to do. We took a look at one of the System Preferences crash logs. I asked to see your crash logs in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports, of which there were many and spread across many processes. You presented with an initial symptom of System Preferences crashing and iCloud being inaccessible. NetworkingTopic_-153126_Users-MacBook-Pro.diagĬom.-142538.ipsĬom.-142543.ipsĬom.-151651.ipsĬorespotlightd_-080124_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬorespotlightd_-080131_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬorespotlightd_-080136_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬorespotlightd_-095148_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬorespotlightd_-095150_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬorespotlightd_-095152_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashįollowing instructions from comments I then tried "boot into Recovery and scan your volumes" and got:Īnd from fsck it seems there are problems on disk3s1 and disk3s5, while disk3s2| disk3s3| disk3s4 all seem good: NetworkingTopic_-075541_Users-MacBook-Pro.diag Microsoft Update Assistant_-203725_Users-MacBook-Pro.crash Microsoft Update Assistant_-075109_Users-MacBook-Pro.crash Microsoft Update Assistant_-074606_Users-MacBook-Pro.crash KeySyncTopic_-075545_Users-MacBook-Pro.diag On /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports I see: CloudServicesTopic_-075542_Users-MacBook-Pro.diagĬontextService_-161415-1_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬontextService_-161415_Users-MacBook-Pro.crashĬontextService_-172230_Users-MacBook-Pro.crash Had anybody else ever saw this? How should I proceed? But now it seems I have a bigger problem since I can't even get in System Preferences. I tried to install Big Sur updates but it failed many times then I decided to install Monterey and it did installed. After restarting I noticed macOS Monterey was available to download as well as updates to Big Sur I was running. I noticed a problem two days ago when I decided to restart the MBP (a thing I rarely do). It also seems I'm not logged in iCloud anymore. When I go to top/left corner, click apple and choose System Preferences menu option it opens and about 2s later closes. On MBP 2015 I'm experiencing System Preferences crash/close.
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