On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I just found out that time machine does not backup hard links. Nor does it > backup meta-data to permit restoring hard links. > > ... > > Note that the restores are all different files.
There are at least two Radars for this. http://openradar.appspot.com/7569890 http://openradar.appspot.com/8005841 They're probably marked as duplicates of some other ticket in the real Radar. I suspect that the root is that hard links can't span volumes so there's no existing mechanism to easily recreate those links. On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:53 AM, David Schwartz <da...@yesdavid.com> wrote: > > With APFS already in public beta on macOS, it might be a little late to be > asking about best practices on HFS+… I expect that relatively soon[TM] (re: Higher Sierra, maybe Higherer Sierra), TimeMachine will see "version 2" that operates similar to ZFS replication and a whole slew of bugs will be marked "won't fix". -- arno s hautala /-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
