Timeline for Is it possible to rescue older parts of a Time Machine backup?
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| Nov 14 at 21:24 | comment | added | Linc Davis | Not from an APFS backup. Try it yourself. | |
| Nov 14 at 21:11 | comment | added | Barmar | It is possible to delete all snapshots of an individual file from Time Machine. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/427300/… | |
| Nov 14 at 20:55 | comment | added | Linc Davis |
Each snapshot contains only the data that has changed on the source since the last backup. If a snapshot completes quickly, that just means that not much had changed. Anyway, if you have doubts, you can compare the contents of snapshots using the tmutil(8) command-line tool built into macOS, or a third-party app such as "Backup Loupe" (not an endorsement.)
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| Nov 14 at 20:07 | comment | added | TLo | I understand. I was just surprised that I deleted the most recent folder (via the finder) and then did a new backup which was finished almost immediately. This just seemed counterintuitive and I feared that it just saved the difference to the latest (now deleted) backup. If that was how it works, my deletion should have rendered future backups unusable. An alternative explanation would be that "deletion" did not really mean deletion. | |
| Nov 14 at 18:51 | comment | added | gidds | But note that if you do delete an individual snapshot, you might not save as much disk space as you expect, as parts are likely to be shared with other snapshots. | |
| Nov 14 at 17:58 | history | answered | Linc Davis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |