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Are Time Machine backups incremental? And is Time Machine any better on Snow Leopard?

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I would like to understand how Time Machine backups work and has this been made any better in Snow Leopard?

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Yes, Time machine is incremental. OS X using an events driven agent, fsevents, to track which files change (no need for scanning every hour), and then, using modified hard-links, called multi-links for files which don't change, only those that do ar…

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