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10.5: Improve networked Time Machine performance
Authored by: felix-fi on Wed, May 14 2008 at 10:56PM PDT

I may be wrong, but it sounds like a VERY BAD IDEA...

For example, hdiutil compact only reclaims bands which are completely "free"... (see the man page).

" For SPARSEBUNDLE images, completely
unused band files are simply removed."

I can easily imagine a situation where you end up with 500 1g bands which have files and TM thinking that the backup is full...

But I may be wrong... you tell us in a week or two.