On 4/8/13 5:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Russell-
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:49:47PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
A point and click later and we are back to the earlier state,
and if I'm wrong, another point and click and we are at another
state, and ....
rsync doesn't solve this particular problem. If I need to do that, I
use a version control system - eg subversion
I've used Subversion (and in the ancient prehistory SCCS and RCS) which
is partly why for my professional projects, I don't worry so much about
*backup* perse... everything is in a repository *off site* and backed up
by someone with more care and patience than *I* have.
- if my wife needs to do
that, she is SOL :). I'm not going to try to teach her
subversion. Fortunately, that has never happened.
Wow, it is my *wife* that has taught *me* all I know about subversion
(as opposed to Subversion(tm)). She's the master (mistress?) at it!
Time Machine would be nice (provided I could develop trust of
it). Unfortunately, I'm Linux, not Mac, so its not an option :). If
someone implements a transparent copy on write versioning file system,
I'd probably install it on my home partition, just in case I even need
to solve a problem like the above. Subversion is too expensive for
/home. Alas, even though some experimental versions exist, none have
made it to prime time.
I'm surprised someone (aside from Apple) hasn't solved this. I presume
there is no Time Machine interface for anything but OSX. But I haven't
checked... it is *mostly* software. To the extent that (too?) many of
us do *nothing*, it is not hard to trust Time Machine to do *more*.
Thanks for the clarification about rsync... since incremental/diff-based
source control has been around *forever* and Time Machine for 5 or more
years? I assumed there were other equivalent solutions... hmmmm?
Silly Apple, *why* would they ever think they were unique?
- Steve
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