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Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

deander2 writes "Apple's 'Time Machine' is cool, but I use Linux, not MacOSX. So here is a Linux implementation (built off of rsync, of course). No fancy OpenGL, but quite functional none-the-less."

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  1. Ubuntu TimeVault by phoebe · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's already been work on a Linux Time Machine, just not ready for prime time yet: TimeVault.

  2. Re:No Open Source Invovation here! by ickoonite · · Score: 5, Informative

    (Find files that have been altered from last update -> Copy Said files to alternate drive in directory with the date as a name, make note of files that have deleted)

    Trivialising the technical underpinnings of Time Machine is unwise, and plays right into the hands of those who say Apple is all about show and lacks substance. In fact, the way Time Machine knows what files have been modified is really quite elegant and shouldn't be underplayed. I shan't go into the details of it all here, but if you are interested, see the relevant page of John Siracusa's excellent review of 10.5 over at Ars Technica.

    In the meantime, you might like to consider learning how to spell.

    :|

  3. Re:Question by krog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless you can produce a link or some debugger output or something, I'm gonna go ahead and trust ArsTechnica more than I trust you.

    --
    Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
  4. Re:Not the interface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Too long have I sat by and watched a great phrase be abused:

    ...Also, TM is not confined to the Finder per say. if you're in Address Book and lost a contact, type in the filter string to locate it. Still... It's PER SE, goddamnit! And it means "intrinsically!" You saying "TM is not confined to the Finder per se" would imply that either it IS somehow confined to finder (but not intrinsically) or you just like to use big-person words you don't understand. Please! Think about what you're saying!
  5. Re:Rsnapshot by phoebusQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except rsnapshot uses rsync, which must rescan the filesystem. With Time Machine, the FSEvents daemon makes that unnecessary in the common case. Also, Time Machine uses hard links to directories.