On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:50:38PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote: > On 4/8/13 5:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > Russell- > > > >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? > >
Expensive commercial stuff exists that do exactly that. I remember using some in the dim-distant past that worked with tape robots. But I'm not aware of open source software that solves the problem. Pretty much all the stuff I do care about exist in offsite repositories (arXiv, SourceForge, etc) - with the exception of the GBs of family photos and videos. I should do something about those, I suppose. Of course at this stage, I have no plans on digitising the mound of hardcopy photos that existed prior to us getting a digital camera circa 2005, so there's still a lot of history at risk. My biggest risk at the moment is video, particularly VHS, which is fading fast, even without the house burning down. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
