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29th October 2007 - Link Blog

How Time Machine works. From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images.

Posted 29th October 2007 at 9:56 am

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