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If I close the lid during a Time Machine backup on a power nap-enabled MBP, will it continue to complete?

My wife's MBP (Power Nap enabled) seems to take a long time completing TM backups, so much so that it is often in the middle of one when she goes to bed at night. This causes her to leave the computer open overnight. Could she just shut the lid (the MBP is plugged in to the power adapter), and will the backup continue and complete using Power Nap after the lid is closed? Even if the backup doesn't complete, will shutting the lid in the middle of it cause problems with the backup that won't be corrected when she opens the computer back up?

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 8:18 AM

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Posted on Jan 18, 2022 8:52 AM

Hal S. Barron wrote:

My wife's MBP (Power Nap enabled) seems to take a long time completing TM backups, so much so that it is often in the middle of one when she goes to bed at night. This causes her to leave the computer open overnight. Could she just shut the lid (the MBP is plugged in to the power adapter), and will the backup continue and complete using Power Nap after the lid is closed? Even if the backup doesn't complete, will shutting the lid in the middle of it cause problems with the backup that won't be corrected when she opens the computer back up?


"When your Mac is plugged into a power adapter, Power Nap can also do

activities such as downloading software updates and performing Time

Machine backups."


ref: What is Power Nap on Mac? - Apple Support


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Jan 18, 2022 8:52 AM in response to Hal S. Barron

Hal S. Barron wrote:

My wife's MBP (Power Nap enabled) seems to take a long time completing TM backups, so much so that it is often in the middle of one when she goes to bed at night. This causes her to leave the computer open overnight. Could she just shut the lid (the MBP is plugged in to the power adapter), and will the backup continue and complete using Power Nap after the lid is closed? Even if the backup doesn't complete, will shutting the lid in the middle of it cause problems with the backup that won't be corrected when she opens the computer back up?


"When your Mac is plugged into a power adapter, Power Nap can also do

activities such as downloading software updates and performing Time

Machine backups."


ref: What is Power Nap on Mac? - Apple Support


If I close the lid during a Time Machine backup on a power nap-enabled MBP, will it continue to complete?

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