> rsync does have --link-dest which you can sometimes use to get a (file level) dedup effect. Sadly for safety's sake directory hardlinks pretty much don't exi

> rsync does have --link-dest which you can sometimes use to get a (file level) dedup effect. Sadly for safety's sake directory hardlinks pretty much don't exist, so this doesn't save as much as it could. Apple hacked in an exception for Time Machine so they could get these additional savings.