Re: Mac OS X Leopard
Ryuji is smart here and the Time Machine, is good in that it synchs well w/the OS etc. Also, the storage system, Time Capsule w/1TB for $479 @ education pricing, is a very good deal. On February2008, at 10:35 PM, Ryuji Suzuki wrote: Time Machine isn't the only backup solution. That is absolutely true. However, any external backup system would have to figure out which files were created/deleted/modified by scanning each directory, and sometimes by using computationally expensive hash function. So having this feature as a part of the OS is an advantage, since OS can collect and access to these pieces of information with much less computational burden. I currently use rsync -avx --inplace to backup my files, but I'm looking forward to try Time Machine when I figure out the transition strategy. -- Ryuji Suzuki "Make something religious and people don't have to deal with it, they can say it's irrelevant." (Bob Dylan, Biograph booklet, 1985)
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