Where Are the Sanity Checks?
Where Are the Sanity Checks?
eclecticlight.co Where are the sanity checks?
When did you last see figures on your Mac that were unbelievable, like 60 TB of snapshots on a 2 TB SSD? We need more sanity checking.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
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Time Machine backups rely on hard links a lot, there are files in each snapshot pointing at the same data on disk. I imagine that could be what is going on here. This person could actually have had 60Tb worth of backup data sets on a 2Tb drive, only possible because there are very few differences between the data sets.