Offsite Backups, Blocking Scammers, Quick Tips, and More – Mac Geek Gab 872

As Apple users, we have lots of technology needs which extend beyond that which are made by the fruit company. Listen as your two favorite geeks share their thoughts and answers to your questions about Offsite Backups, Blocking Scammers, DVRing today’s video content, and much more. Press play and learn at least five new things along with Dave and John.
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Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 872 for Monday, May 24, 2021

Quick Tips

00:02:14 Alex-QT-Undo Trashing Files*

00:03:14 QT-AirTag Range*

00:06:03 Darius-QT-Another Accessibility Shortcut - BackTap*

00:07:56 Matt-QT-Use Homebrew To Install Apps

Cool Stuff Found

00:10:25 Randall-CSF-Playon.tv to DVR Your Netflix, HBO, Amazon Content*

00:12:13 Todd-CSF-Microsoft Office for Mac Mega Resource*

LibreOffice

00:15:12 DLH-CSF-Personal Features in Microsoft Teams are now free

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Offsite Backups

00:19:05 Cory-Options for Offsite Backup in Today’s World*

How to back up your Mac 2021

BackBlaze - $60/year, one Mac and locally-attached drives

Carbonite Home - $72/year - External drives are add-on option

iDrive Personal - $69/year - 5TB limit - external drives included, adds a real-time sync option with collaboration

Arq - BYOStorage - $49.99 one time purchase for software, uses Amazon Drive, AWS, Backblaze B2, Google, OneDrive, SFTP, etc. B2 is $5/mo/TB (prorated, of course)

Arq Premium - $60/year - Five computers included! 1TB storage (more buyable at $0.59/mo for 100GB, prorated)

Acronis TrueImage

Synology Drive

Synology Hyper Backup

Synology C2

Synology Hybrid Cloud

BoxCryptor

Tarsnap

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00:32:40 CSF-Carbon Copy Cloner now clones system volume on M1 Macs*

CCC6 Calls this “Legacy Bootable”

Snapshot Disk Usage

00:36:40 John-871-Mapping TM Drive Via IP Address, The Conclusion

00:37:54 Rob-871-Time Machine over the Internet*

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Your Questions and Tips...Answered and Shared!

00:44:13 Ran out of DHCP Addresses

00:51:26 Dave’s iPhone Battery is Depleting Too Quickly*

00:56:33 Joe-Blocking Scammers*

01:04:54 Dave’s not running IPv6

01:06:19 Dan-Drive Encryption Exists on T2 Macs even Without FileVault*

How FileVault and the T2 Security Chip work together in newer Macs

To enable auto login with FileVault enabled:

First: Check Mac is capable of this with fdesetup supportsauthrestart

Second: Authorize bypass sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes -1

01:12:42 MGG 871 Outtro

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