Compressing Backups.backupdb with afsctool?

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  1. nelly22, May 21, 2016

    nelly22 macrumors 6502

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    My USB backup HDD is running our of space and there's nothing i could delete and i don't yet have new bigger HDD.

    I have succesfully compressed some of my own text files with afsctool in internal HDD.

    Is it okay if i use afsctool to compress big text files in Backups.backupdb/home/date-here/Macintosh HD/Users/Nelly/Documents/?
     
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  2. richard2, May 22, 2016
    Last edited: May 22, 2016

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    I wouldn't recommend manually modifying your Time Machine backups because doing so will almost certainly lead to disaster. Instead, simply delete the backups of the uncompressed files.
     
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