Just letting you know, Plan 9 has had essentially the same functionality as Time Machine built in for years. 9fs dump cd /n/dump/2007/6/15/usr/john bam, I'm in my home directory as of June 2007. Backing up only the changed blocks is the winner.
noah
· 2 years ago
But, you see, the real value of Time Machine isn't the fact that it backs up folders. Lots of things have incremental backups over increasing increments of time, or even daily backups.
What Time Machine brings is mainly two things. First, the interface makes looking for changes easier, as you can jump back to change dates and even apply searches to jump back through changes, and you don't have to do things on a date basis (i.e. you don't have to remember the day it changed, if you are simply looking for changes). Second, and more importantly, applications are plugged into it. Even though at the lowest level it is (probably) just a regular ol' file backup, it gives the semantic of "looking for the picture I deleted", or the album you deleted, or the folder, or what have you.
Incremental backup is nothing new, hence my lack of excitement about Time Machine originally, but intuitive and effective interfaces for presenting this information is new (to me).
PaulSolt
· 2 years ago
I agree with you. You can't sell a product back to someone once they've made a conscious decision that your piece of software is lacking or pointless to use.
Vista is a mess and I have no intentions of using it in place of XP.
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9fs dump
cd /n/dump/2007/6/15/usr/john
bam, I'm in my home directory as of June 2007. Backing up only the changed blocks is the winner.
But, you see, the real value of Time Machine isn't the fact that it backs up folders. Lots of things have incremental backups over increasing increments of time, or even daily backups.
What Time Machine brings is mainly two things. First, the interface makes looking for changes easier, as you can jump back to change dates and even apply searches to jump back through changes, and you don't have to do things on a date basis (i.e. you don't have to remember the day it changed, if you are simply looking for changes). Second, and more importantly, applications are plugged into it. Even though at the lowest level it is (probably) just a regular ol' file backup, it gives the semantic of "looking for the picture I deleted", or the album you deleted, or the folder, or what have you.
Incremental backup is nothing new, hence my lack of excitement about Time Machine originally, but intuitive and effective interfaces for presenting this information is new (to me).
Vista is a mess and I have no intentions of using it in place of XP.