On Jul 27, 1:57 am, Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote: > TaliesinSoft wrote: > > I've often wondered how Time Machine deals with changes in files being made > > while a backup is in progress. That is, is the backup "static" in that > > everything on the backup is as it was at a single given moment, or is each > > file backed up as it was at the moment that file itself was backed up? > > I'd think the latter, as there's no snapshotting in HFS+. > > Cheers, > > Chris
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 distributed over the time it took to make that backup. So a faster interface would result in a smaller range of file sample times.
