BackupLoupe for Mac
Analyze, browse, and restore Time Machine backups.
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BackupLoupe overview
BackupLoupe is your Swiss Army Knife for Time Machine. See which files have been backed up and which ones take up the most space. Quickly locate files and restore them via drag-and-drop. Never run out of space, because BackupLoupe will predict when your backup drive is likely to fill up.
Features:
- Quickly identify the items which take up the most space
- History: Show how many versions of an item are available and when they were saved; quick navigation between versions
- Integration with other applications via system services: click on an item in Finder to find all its revisions
- Drag-and-drop restore items to any location
- Finder / Path Finder integration (Reveal, Info)
- QuickLook support
- Provides extensive statistics about backups
- Instant identification of file type while browsing
- Open files directly without restoring them first
- Browse backups while the backup device is not connected
- Exclude items from future backups on the fly (without opening TM preferences)
- Handles multiple Time Machine disks
What’s new in version 3.13
New
- Action "Compare to previous version" to compare a file to its previously backed up version
- When comparing files with identical content show the differences in meta data instead
- New command "Why has this item been backed up?" accessible via file-related menus; By showing the differences in meta data it explains why an item has been backed up although the file content has not changed since the previous snapshot
- Support for Kaleidoscope 4 and 5
Fixed
- History View's "Compare to selected version" compares to the version selected in the browser instead of the selected version in history view
- Display of OS version for snapshots was unreliable and has been removed
- Spelling error in one of the dialogs (Thanks, Rob!)
Improved
- Group created via BackupLoupe is no longer visible in System Settings (Thanks, Michael!)
BackupLoupe for Mac
$29.00
In English
Version 3.13
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Nov 24 2023
Version: 3.11
I should have licence BackupLoupe years earlier. It helps me a lot to catalogue the Time Machine saves in different external hard drives and NAS folders. It is an easy way to find the right backup drive to recover a certain file without having it attached. And BackupLoupe is really helpful to understand why an increment is so huge.
Aug 22 2023
Version: 3.9
BackupLoupe, it really whips the Lama's ass.
What apple failed to implement (restore data from an external media constantly attached to the device) BackupLoupe compensated well.
Nov 20 2020
Version: 3.1
The files from an MacBook Air were lost due to liquid came onto the keyboard and ran into the interior of the computer and ”killed” it. The files on the SSD were back'd-up on Time Machine. My problem was the file ending change from .sparsebundle on High Sierra to .backupbundle on Catalina (OS for the MacBook Air). On my desktop Mac on High Sierra I could not access the backup from Catalina. Thanks to your BackupLoupe tool I have been able to recover them.
Apr 22 2020
Version: 2.16.2
BackupLoupe has been indispensable for tracking what Time Machine has been backing up. It has shown why my Time Machine backup drive has been filling quickly.
Dec 20 2019
Version: 2.16.2
Installed the trial. Three levels on the trial does not seem sufficient to evaluate the product. But anyway Time Machine would not backup thereafter, so uninstalled.
