Backup Atlas 1.0.0-beta.1 Beta

The first beta of Backup Atlas. Thank you for trying it.

What it does

• Menu-bar watchdog: the icon gets an orange dot only for real problems: a backup that’s overdue, a backup disk that can’t be reached, backups that keep failing to finish, or a backup that stalled.
• At a glance: the window starts with how far your Mac is backed up, then your week of backups, the documents you deleted and the ones you changed.
• Find and restore: search for a file by name, even one you deleted, compare a version with the one on your Mac, and restore it wherever you like.
• Find in Backups: if you know the folder, it finds every copy in your backups, even from before you installed Backup Atlas.
• Compare: a line-by-line diff for text and code, or the two versions side by side for PDFs, images, Pages and Office documents.
• Last Copy at Risk: deleted documents whose last backed-up copy Time Machine is about to thin away, and when.
• Desktop widget in three sizes.

Good to know

• Backup Atlas needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later and Full Disk Access. The app walks you through granting it.
• Your history starts when you install it. In the background, on power and while the backup disk is connected, it scans your older backups to fill in the past.
• Backup Atlas only reads your backups. It never starts, stops or deletes one.
• From this version on, Backup Atlas checks backupatlas.app for updates. You can turn that off in the menu bar under More › Check for Updates Automatically. Your files, the history of your changes and the index are never sent anywhere.

Feedback

Something wrong or unclear? Write to support@backupatlas.app.