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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by mrpippy on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:29PM (#16260768)
Yes, I'm pretty sure it did. I seem to remember one of the APFS sessions at WWDC (either 2016 or 2017) had a demo about how local TM snapshots used to work (really kind of a hack), and how APFS would improve the situation dramatically.
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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by rconti on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:34PM (#16260815)
Does anyone happen to know if the new Time Machine backups are automagically better (upgraded), or should I start over with a fresh backup destination?
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Re:Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017) by thought_alarm on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:38PM (#16260842)
The new implementation only applies to local time machine backups. Backups to external drives have not changed.
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