On Sep 30, 2011, at 13:59, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> backup: > 1. power down mac. remove hard drive. > 2. stuff drive as one gigantic file into venti. > > restore: > 1. copy your backup onto drive > 2. install hard drive. power up mac. In principal, that's roughly what vbackup does, except with file systems instead of whole disks and without taking things apart. I decided I didn't need to store each version of the OS files; if you want whole images, look at vbackup (or, yes, time machine). I don't buy the backup/archive distinction as defined. It's totally coherent to say "I want a backup of data set xyz", where that isn't exactly one file system. I have backups of the data I care about, and I've judged that, for my usage, the moderate inconvenience and tiny risk of not having full FS backups is worth the trade off. (note I don't dispute that backup/archive is an important distinction, I just think that draws the line in the wrong place.)
