On 16/06/11 10:50, Esztermann, Ansgar wrote:
On Jun 11, 2011, at 18:08 , Anders Johansson wrote:
hm, ok, so there is no real magic, except in the GUI that it reproduces what the application looked like with that backup restored. Well, Time Machine does use hard links to unchanged directories, and to reproduce that on Linux would -- as far as I know -- require changes in the kernel. I am not sure if TM's strategy of doing one "full" backup every hour is feasible without hard-linked directories.
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Umm not true at all, many linux backup programs do this very easily. Basically what you do is copy the old backup using hardlinks, then use rsync to get any changed files. Then every backup appears complete despite only taking the space of a differential backup. Backintime (which i've already recommended in this thread, it's very good) offers this and pretty much all the features of Time Machine (including a nice, though not windows flying through space, GUI). Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org