Lesson 17- Manage Time Machine

Question 1

What can you back up with Time Machine?

Answer 1

entire mac

Question 2

Which types of files are omitted from Time Machine backups?

Answer 2

temporary files, spotlight indexes, items in the trash and anything that can be considered cache

Question 3

Why is Time Machine inefficient at backing up large databases?

Answer 3

because it must back up the entire database file every time any change, no matter how small, is made to the database

Question 4

What happens when you try to select an APFS volume as a Time Machine backup?

Answer 4

time machine offers to reformat it to the supported format of HFS plus

Question 5

Which feature helps Time Machine restore data when your Time Machine backup disk is unavailable?

Answer 5

local snapshots

Question 6

What four ways can you restore data from a Time Machine backup?

Answer 6

1. restore specific items from a time machine backup
2. restore with migration assistant
3. restore an entire system using macOS Recovery
4. manually restore with the Finder