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            Disk Utility in macOS 12 Monterey Manages APFS Snapshots

   Josh Centers

   Howard Oakley at The Eclectic Light Company points out that [1]Disk
   Utility in macOS 12 Monterey now supports viewing and managing APFS
   snapshots. APFS snapshots provide rolling copies of a drive's state so
   you can easily restore in case something goes wrong (see '[2]What APFS
   Does for You, and What You Can Do with APFS,' 23 July 2018). Those
   snapshots are handy but haven't been easy to work with in previous
   versions of macOS (see '[3]How to Work with and Restore APFS
   Snapshots,' 9 May 2019). With Disk Utility in Monterey, you can mount a
   snapshot like an external drive and copy data from it. You can also
   delete previous snapshots to save disk space. Oakley also points out
   some new command-line options for working with APFS snapshots.

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   1. https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/
   2. https://tidbits.com/2018/07/23/what-apfs-does-for-you-and-what-you-can-do-with-apfs/
   3. https://tidbits.com/2019/05/09/how-to-work-with-and-restore-apfs-snapshots/
   4. https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/

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