Pillar one
Protection you can glance at.
Protected, Aging, Stale, or Unavailable, judged only by the last backup that finished. While a backup runs you get live phase and percent, and Rolex keeps a derived history of successful versus failed attempts so a quietly failing disk cannot hide.
- Menu-bar status plus small and medium desktop widgets
- Live progress with phase and percent during a backup
- History of successes and failures, derived on device
- Your threshold: you decide when recent stops being recent
Pillar two
Shares that stay mounted.
Backing up to a NAS only works while the share is reachable. Rolex remounts your SMB and WebDAV shares at login, on wake, and on network changes, with credentials kept in the Keychain and probing that never beachballs your Mac.
- Auto-mount at login, on wake, and when the network changes
- Credentials live in the macOS Keychain, nowhere else
- When your backup destination is a managed share, its health comes straight from the mount state
By design
Quiet until it matters.
Notifications fire on transitions only: your backups went stale, the destination dropped, protection recovered. Never a ping per check. The menu-bar icon can even hide until you hover, and it always comes back on its own when something needs attention.
Five dollars. Yours forever.
One payment, no subscription, no account. Notarized by Apple, signed by RALL DIGITAL LLC, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel.
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Requires macOS 14 or later. Reading Time Machine state needs Full Disk Access, and the app walks you through granting it.