Posted by
Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cloud-storage-tp7582450p7582607.html
On 4/8/13 5:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Russell-
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:49:47PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> A point and click later and we are back to the earlier state,
> and if I'm wrong, another point and click and we are at another
> state, and ....
> rsync doesn't solve this particular problem. If I need to do that, I
> use a version control system - eg subversion
I've used Subversion (and in the ancient prehistory SCCS and RCS) which
is partly why for my professional projects, I don't worry so much about
*backup* perse... everything is in a repository *off site* and backed up
by someone with more care and patience than *I* have.
> - if my wife needs to do
> that, she is SOL :). I'm not going to try to teach her
> subversion. Fortunately, that has never happened.
Wow, it is my *wife* that has taught *me* all I know about subversion
(as opposed to Subversion(tm)). She's the master (mistress?) at it!
>
> 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?
- Steve
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