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How does Time Machine deal with hard links
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Mar 15, 20261487 viewsConfidence Score0%
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If I create multiple hard links to the same file on my system, will Time Machine detect it and make only one physical copy of the file?
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Repeating experiment with creating hard linked file and backing it up using time machine gives different result in 2024. Both time machine have the files still hardlinked and restoring the files preserves hard links. Tested for backup of APFS to APF…
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