Timeline for Is it possible to trick Time Machine into backing up a file again?
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| Jun 26, 2021 at 11:08 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Isn't HFS compression happening on filesystem level, and invisible/transparent to any application accessing such files? This would explain why a new backup wasn't triggered, it also would mean that the touched file backuped by TM will not be compressed. | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 10:15 | vote | accept | Haravikk | ||
| Jun 26, 2021 at 10:13 | comment | added | Haravikk | @nohillside strangely it doesn't; presumably compressing triggers some kind of fsevent but Time Machine seems to either ignore it, or maybe uses a checksum to decide that the file didn't actually change? | |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 9:04 | comment | added | Haravikk | @benwiggy That's only true in the short term; eventually the uncompressed versions will be pruned away. | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | benwiggy | You're not going to save space, as TM will hold the older uncompressed file AND the newer compressed version. | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 11:39 | answer | added | ErniePC12 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 10:06 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Compression changes the file, so doesn't TM pick it up anyway? | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 10:03 | history | asked | Haravikk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |