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		kalleboo on Aug 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS Even when I had an Apple Time Capsule, it would break about once a year. It's just a flakey system. Wish they'd add the equivalent of zsend to APFS instead of using the weird "gigantic sparse disk image with hard links in it" system

praseodym on Aug 23, 2023 [–]

When backing up to an APFS Time Machine volume it does work a bit like that, at least no hard links are used any more:

- https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/11/time-machine-to-apfs-und...

- https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/16/time-machine-to-apfs-usi...

kalleboo on Aug 24, 2023 | [–]

Oh awesome! I guess I need to delete and re-create my Time Machine backup to enable this.

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