Well, its hard to tell from the description whether the "Time Machine
browser" is the only way you can get at previous versions of files
before you restore them. If so, this is somewhat different than snapshots.
--joe
David J. Orman wrote:
Reading that site, it sounds EXACTLY like snapshots. It doesn't sound to require a second
disk, it just gives you the option of backing up to one. Sounds like it snapshots once a
day (configurable) and then "sends" the snapshot to another drive/server if you
request it to do so. Looks like they just made snapshots accesible to desktop users.
Pretty impressive how they did the GUI work too.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, August 7, 2006 8:55 am
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Time Machine
To: Tao Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: ZFS Discussions <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org>
There are some more details here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html
In particular, the backups are done to a separate drive. This means
that they can't be using traditional COW techniques (not that such a
thing is possible with HSFS), so it's unclear what kind of performance
impact this would have on your machine. I'm sure we'll hear some
details as people actually get their hands on the software.
- Eric
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