I have had this type of rsync backups for years now on personal computers and servers. There are several scripts floating around the internet that do exactly what Time Machine does. The problem is 1) usability and 2) interface.
i have too....i just built a GUI around it, similar to time machines. (w/o the 3d effects, but they're planned)
Claiming to have created a backuptool "inspired on" time machine obliges one to give some more documentation than... ehm... none.
ok, fair enough. =P
to answer your questions, yes, i am creating a fully consistend directory tree for which no special software is needed to consult it. hardlinks are used, but obviously i didn't hack hardlink dir support into your kernel via python, so the dir structure is still duped. (wasting a few KBs of hard drive space, i'm sure, but what the heck)
no inotify, so i do have to scan the entire dir during every back, but this hasn't been prohibitively long-running even on very large dirs i've tested it on.
And rsync certainly does not facilitate multiple hardlinks to a directory to be made.
nope, but to files it does, and that's what uses the most disk space. check the option: --link-dest
Therefore, this shameless plug probably does not offer something similar to time machine. Unless the author also claims that a Trabant is something like a Ferrari.
i do plan on adding the "damn gotta get me that" user-friendliness. i just wanted the get the basics done first. it works the same basic way already, where you can move "back" (ie, to previous snapshots) in the same directory. i just have to learn the python-opengl bindings.
My problem with the Sun JRE is that it is HUGE. Why do I need 100MB+ to run a simple Java application?
you don't. a simple stroll over to java.sun.com will show you that the JRE is 14M for windows and 18M for linux.
the "100M+" is if you're also downloading all their development tools and documentation (and possibly netbeans, depending on the link). not atypical in the least.
> Fuel cells are interesting, but I think that direct electrical storage through batteries and later supercapacitors is more likely to actually work out.
you know that batteries store electricity chemically, right? same as a closed-cycle fuel cell system would. only caps store the electrical charge directly.
very neat, but it seems like they're hampered by materials. (silicone adhesive is the most permanent of what i've seen with these types of machines) does anyone have any recommendations for more permanent but still liquidish-at-deposition options? plaster of paris? ultra-fine concrete?
....stupid arguments about people vs. citizens....The Democrats....the Dems.....
yeah, sorry, how silly of me. i must have forgotten this is simply a meaningless political battle, and not a basic moral issue independent of party affiliation. my mistake. [/sarcasm]
I was shocked and appalled today by your "no" vote to reinstate habeas corpus via Specter Amdt. No. 2022. I believe that while terrorists are a threat to America, the threat of a government able to indefinitely detain it's own citizens without charge is greater. Habeas corpus is a basic human right dating back over 700 years, and America set out on the wrong path when we abandoned it. If people we have detained are criminals, let's please convict them in the manner that has served our great nation for over 200 years. I urge you to please change your position.
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just buy yourself an external hard drive and use flyback:
http://code.google.com/p/flyback/
no, it was on his back.
(sad that i know this so certainly...)
it only works with certain apps, from what i understand. for a detailed writeup about it, read the article on arstechnica. it's pretty simple.
i do plan nautilus integration....
I have had this type of rsync backups for years now on personal computers and servers. There are several scripts floating around the internet that do exactly what Time Machine does. The problem is 1) usability and 2) interface.
i have too....i just built a GUI around it, similar to time machines. (w/o the 3d effects, but they're planned)
and i agree with you. that's why i built this.
Claiming to have created a backuptool "inspired on" time machine obliges one to give some more documentation than... ehm... none.
ok, fair enough. =P
to answer your questions, yes, i am creating a fully consistend directory tree for which no special software is needed to consult it. hardlinks are used, but obviously i didn't hack hardlink dir support into your kernel via python, so the dir structure is still duped. (wasting a few KBs of hard drive space, i'm sure, but what the heck)
no inotify, so i do have to scan the entire dir during every back, but this hasn't been prohibitively long-running even on very large dirs i've tested it on.
And rsync certainly does not facilitate multiple hardlinks to a directory to be made.
nope, but to files it does, and that's what uses the most disk space. check the option: --link-dest
Therefore, this shameless plug probably does not offer something similar to time machine. Unless the author also claims that a Trabant is something like a Ferrari.
italian trash... =P
i do plan on adding the "damn gotta get me that" user-friendliness. i just wanted the get the basics done first. it works the same basic way already, where you can move "back" (ie, to previous snapshots) in the same directory. i just have to learn the python-opengl bindings.
My problem with the Sun JRE is that it is HUGE. Why do I need 100MB+ to run a simple Java application?
you don't. a simple stroll over to java.sun.com will show you that the JRE is 14M for windows and 18M for linux.
the "100M+" is if you're also downloading all their development tools and documentation (and possibly netbeans, depending on the link). not atypical in the least.
> Fuel cells are interesting, but I think that direct electrical storage through batteries and later supercapacitors is more likely to actually work out.
you know that batteries store electricity chemically, right? same as a closed-cycle fuel cell system would. only caps store the electrical charge directly.
very neat, but it seems like they're hampered by materials. (silicone adhesive is the most permanent of what i've seen with these types of machines) does anyone have any recommendations for more permanent but still liquidish-at-deposition options? plaster of paris? ultra-fine concrete?
Isn't millimeter wave the technology in the pain-inducing raygun?
yep. all part of sony's "painful as possible" drm strategy. =P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5QCMGNqZA
Or tried anything in signal analysis without the benefit of O(nlog(n)) algorithms?
O(n*lg(n))
nitpick, i know, but "log" w/o specifying the base usually means base 10, and i assume you mean to say base 2 (which is usually written "lg")
http://xkcd.com/256/ =p
didn't the spruce goose teach us anything about building aircraft out of dead plant material? =p
heh, funny, but not entirely true. the article notes that heating up the bridge causes it to collapse. =p
we had AJAX back in 1999?!? why didn't anyone tell me?!?!?
oh yeah, that's right. we did. we just called it something else:
"beat head against desk until something comes out"
meh. =p
The first prototype stands 1.8 metres tall, while the latest incarnation is slightly shorter, at 0.9 metres.
yeah...."slightly" shorter....
is your argument that habeas corpus is not a basic human right?
....stupid arguments about people vs. citizens....The Democrats....the Dems.....
no US Citizen has had their habeas corpus rights taken away
yes, they have.
yeah, sorry, how silly of me. i must have forgotten this is simply a meaningless political battle, and not a basic moral issue independent of party affiliation. my mistake. [/sarcasm]
The letter I've written to my two senators:
Mr. xxxxxxx,
I was shocked and appalled today by your "no" vote to reinstate habeas corpus via Specter Amdt. No. 2022. I believe that while terrorists are a threat to America, the threat of a government able to indefinitely detain it's own citizens without charge is greater. Habeas corpus is a basic human right dating back over 700 years, and America set out on the wrong path when we abandoned it. If people we have detained are criminals, let's please convict them in the manner that has served our great nation for over 200 years. I urge you to please change your position.
Sincerely,
Derek Anderson
you killed my father! =p
$400 / 4000 liters = $.10/liter, not $1/liter.
2500 sq ft? that's not much of a lab...smaller than my house.
as far as office space goes, this is pathetic. think one 50'x50' room.
this explains linus. =P
ahhh...yeah, sorry, i don't really follow anyone but SU, FSU, VT. :-/
(btw, when vick was still at VT, we all knew he was an asshole douchebag. didn't surprise me at all to see the dog fighting ring thing)
my sis went to app-state tho....maybe i should take them more seriously now.
why is "appalachianstate" a tag? the article mentions nothing about it....