Again, many thanks, so what do you use as a backup? John
> On May 7, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Lee Larson <leelar...@me.com> wrote: > > I forgot to mention that HFS+ doesn’t really have hard links. Apple just > grafted something onto it that kinda, sorta but not quite behaves like hard > links. They did this in order to make Time Machine work. > > I can kind of see how this came about. The Apple Time Machine engineers were > looking at real Unix file system backup utilities like rsync or bru and > wistfully said “Gee, I wish we could do that.” So, they hacked an ugly kind > of workalike hard link capability into the aged HFS+ system just to make Time > Machine work. > > This is why I’ve never really liked Time Machine. > > L^2 > > > > > > --- > Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> > > Sociopaths are attracted to politics because they see it as a sphere in > which you can be ruthless and step all over people. The fact that some > politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. > Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it. — Alexander McCall Smith > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=3mTjtCe_RSZwOInHtwevUqsgiWFbTgRVVfDvRcXpxNA&s=qUVk1dZXdg2-TS-_ViE2m9wqHiDyyyV0wiP9uJHe79o&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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