@jws Yes, local backups were introduced many OS iterations ago, but the implementation under APFS is vastly different. For one thing, you used to be able to disable local backups (they weren’t referred to as snapshots until High Sierra). Such local backups were only on laptops, now under macOS 13, they are made on APFS-only drives. (If I’m reading the documentation correctly. /@matigo

@jws Yes, local backups were introduced many OS iterations ago, but the implementation under APFS is vastly different. For one thing, you used to be able to disable local backups (they weren’t referred to as snapshots until High Sierra).
Such local backups were only on laptops, now under macOS 13, they are made on APFS-only drives. (If I’m reading the documentation correctly.

/@matigo

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