On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:08:17PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > Yeah, I just noticed this line: > > "Backup Time: Time Machine will back up every night at midnight, unless > you select a different time from this menu." > > So this is just standard backups, with a (very) slick GUI layered on > top. From the impression of the text-only rumor feed, it sounded more > impressive, from a filesystem implementation perspective. Still, the > GUI integration is pretty nice, and implies that they're backups are in > some easily accessed form. Otherwise, extracting hundreds of files from > a compressed stream would induce too much delay for the interactive > stuff they describe.
You can achieve similar functionality (though not really integrated into all core applications) with Windows XP/2003 by utilizing Samba, ZFS, and Microsoft's Shadow Copy Client. The Shadow Copy Client provides a straightforward GUI for Windows Explorer that lets you browse, open, and restore previous versions of files while ZFS provides an excellent source of snapshots for the Shadow Copy Client to look to for the previous versions. A quick Google search turned up the following URL which has some screenshots to illustrate what the Shadow Copy Client looks like. The default shadow copy VFS module for Samba doesn't work very well with ZFS but after some modifications it provides very good integration of ZFS with Windows Explorer. If anyone is interested I can post the Samba patch to the list. Ed Plese _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
