Pirated apps stay intact when you update MacOS with security fixes and patches. They don't have a track record of trying to find pirated apps, or aggressively prevent them from working, or removing them, or anything. It would be something they'd have to spend time and money to do for little gain AND what if they have a false positive and nuke something important in someone's backup?īesides, Apple isn't the software piracy police. So I was basically saying there's no reason why Apple would do this, and not just because they don't care.
Option is provided to delete older backups on your own. Time Machine keeps hourly backups for past 24 hours, daily backups for past month, and weekly backups for all previous months.Older backups are deleted when the disk is full. Then use the 'Restore From Time Machine Backup' utility. From the page that you linked: 'With your backup drive connected, start up your Mac from the Recovery system (Command-R at startup) or Mac OS X v10.6 installation disc.
All of that is totally unrealistic and something Apple would never do. Time Machine is a very good inbuilt backup software for MAC that can be used to backup MAC for free. When enabled, the backup software of Apple takes periodic snapshots of all the files and catalogs them on an external hard drive. It is true that the Time Machine backups are not bootable, but there is no need to restore the OS first. Or they'd have to maintain some kind of list of known pirated apps and run that so they could be detected and then removed when you restore. It is perfect for routine users, it is free, generally works (yes, disks get. It means - for apple to police what's on there, they'd have to scan your machine, send that data to apple, and then send a signal back to your Time Machine to not install that. Time Machine is unique backup which does not have to be fast, it is continuous backup, working always behind you back.