Re: Time Machine - Effects of Disk Interface Speed?

In article <6f2msmF9hsmtU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

gmark wrote:
Wow, now that you mention it, if that's true, then no backup snapshot
would be
a true "snapshot", but rather a collection of files with a close range
of timestamps

I can't see how you could do anything else, TBH.

I believe Retrospect handles this by first calculating checksums for all
files in the backup. Retrospect makes note of any files that have
changed in the error log during the actual backup.

distributed over the time it took to make that backup. So a faster
interface would
result in a smaller range of file sample times.

Right, but it will still always be a "blur" of what's on your filesystem
unless you've got an infinitely fast interface :-)

There's really no easy way to get around this.

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