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  #3530930 26-Sep-2026 13:08
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alasta:

 

If your Time Machine and iCloud backups are unencrypted then you'll find that they exclude any sensitive personal or financial information. 

 

 

 

 

Yikes. The sort of thing you want backed up too! 


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  #3530932 26-Sep-2026 13:16
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networkn:

 

alasta:

 

If your Time Machine and iCloud backups are unencrypted then you'll find that they exclude any sensitive personal or financial information. 

 

 

Yikes. The sort of thing you want backed up too! 

 

 

I'm more than a little confused by this statement. There is no way to have an "unencrypted" iCloud backup and time machine is a 1 for 1 backup.

 

I wonder if OP is refering to local ios backups which will not backup protected system data unless it's encrypted.


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  #3530943 26-Sep-2026 15:47
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Behodar:

 

My computer (six year old Mac) gave me a "CPU catastrophic error" last week and promptly died. Annoyance one: having to buy a new machine at current prices.

 

Annoyance two: reconfiguring, etc, all the things that are inexplicably not part of the "complete" Time Machine backup. I noticed the same thing a few years ago when replacing an iPhone, where some things simply don't get backed up (or, perhaps, don't get restored).

 

 

Which is why I use a self-built PC with multiple HDDs/SSDs to spread the risk.





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