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(e.g. Linux) - command line or tool is fine. Time Machine backups on local disks are just folders with softlinks, so they are easy to browse.

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  • Time Machine, in fact, uses hard links (as outlined [here](http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14)). – squircle Jun 01 '10 at 00:22

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I highly doubt it. A sparsebundle isn't a file, it's a bundle folder full "band files" representing 8MB (by default) chunks of the disk image. I don't believe Apple has ever published the format. I don't believe the code for this (DiskImages.framework, hdid, hdiutil, Disk Utility.app, etc.) has ever been published as part of Darwin or otherwise.

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