I've owned and loved Carbon Copy Cloner forever. The SoftRAID developer has helped me a ton with this but there is no known fix so he recommended giving up on TM, so here we are. Those downloads and Plex files are on my Media volume and when TM tries to back them up while they're being used it causes restarts with no real evidence of crashes in Console - it's driving me nuts. I keep experiencing restarts when TM backs up while I'm concurrently downloading torrents with qBittorrent and/or viewing movies via Plex on my living room TV connected through wired ethernet. Time Machine has worked well for me since day 1 but over the last couple years it's not reliable and I need a better solution. I have a late 2015 27" iMac with an internal SSD, two ThunderBay 4 running SoftRAID 5 populated with 4 - 3TB HDDs (HFS format for Media and Work volumes) and 4 - 4TB HDDs (APFS format for Time Machine), respectively. TLDR: I can no longer trust Time Machine and need a recommendation for a replacement that does the exact same thing scheduled incremental backups of multiple volumes that keep as many older daily, weekly and monthly versions as the volume can hold, with automatic pruning, simple browsing of older versions, and easy restoring of single files or entire volumes.
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