Due to a problem with Time Machine, I cloned a recent snapshot of a dataset used for Time Machine, deleted the current contents of the dataset and copied the contents of the clone into it. This worked insofar as Time Machine successfully used yesterday's sparsebundle to create a new backup. But the dataset in question is now taking up nearly twice as much disk space. This is nothing to do with yesterday's snapshot being that different, as there were only a few megabytes of new data.
Is this a function of the snapshot cloning process, or is it more likely that 'cp -R' is duplicating hard linked files in the sparsebundle? Or something else?
Edit: and would it have been better to have shared the clone and transferred the files via the Mac client?
Is this a function of the snapshot cloning process, or is it more likely that 'cp -R' is duplicating hard linked files in the sparsebundle? Or something else?
Edit: and would it have been better to have shared the clone and transferred the files via the Mac client?
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