Just learned from a friend of the Blue Lotus Water Gardens about 40 minutes away by car. Sounds fascinating from a photographic viewpoint, if nothing else. See https://goo.gl/4d42Hu for a Google Maps view of the 14-acre site.
I live in one of seven free-standing 3-bedroom housing units on a block, next door is home to a pair of single mothers, each with eleven-year-old daughters. I noticed the two kids today were playing, arguing & fighting in the rear yard of an old house that's been converted to a medical clinic.
I wonder if the medical folk are aware of this.
Backups done for now, sped up by running this in Terminal <sudo sysctl debug.lowprithrottleenabled=0> which changes the Time Machine backup process from the background & gives it more resources.
Normally if a clone & a TM backup are attempted simultaneously, the TM crawls. But after that little trick, TM usually finishes before the clone.
A nice feature of Carbon Copy Cloner is that the clone is slightly reduced in size to accommodate a Recovery Drive partition. When I ran CCC a few minutes ago I was notified that the Recovery drive on the Mac was a newer version than the one on the clone drive. It then gave clear instructions on how to rectify the issue.
Time machine backup finished, clone finishing off. Now to repeat the process on the other external drives.
In my youth there were certain ice-blocks available in the shops: in a plastic& foil-lined paper trapezoidal 5½ fluid ounce container. Three flavours Orange Explosion, Razz raspberry & Glug cola. Haven't seen them for about 45 years. They have made a comeback, same shape & size but this time the metric equivalent of 150 ml. Same shaped package but in plastic this time. No idea what they taste like except it will be quite sweet.
@matigo Nope: take too long. I normally use a distributed physical backup with a Time Machine & a clone stored at a different location & backed up midweek, with the kept-at-home drives backed up on weekends. that way I should never be more than 4 days out of date, that's acceptable.
8.5 GB copied so far to a clone on a Thunderbolt HD, 5.9 GB of 16.8 GB copied to Time Machine on a USB 3.0 HD.
@melli Then, of course, you have my situation: almost the same timezone as @matigo but here it's Summer.
// @teebeuteltier