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For the folks on Linux that are hankering for the Time Machine functionality in Leopard FlyBack might be what you were looking for.
FlyBack works by creating snapshots of the filesystem using rsync and provides a UI to manage those snapshots and optimizes disk space usage by linking unchanged files back to the last known changed version.
The FlyBack website claims two major differences to Time Machine, specifically:
- There is no inotify mechanism in Linux, so FlyBack scans your entire directory structure when performing a backup.
- No hard-linking of directories is supported under Linux, so we waste a few KBs recreating unchanged directory structures with nothing but hard-links in them.
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January 7th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
cool, i was looking into a ton of backup utilities lately and this one looks great.
this tool is promising, so maybe it might be included with future Ubuntu releases as default backup tool (i don’t think they currently comes with one, at least not with a GUI).
thanks for the entry, definitely worth checking out.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
lol the flyback dev is funny:
Future Work
* yes, an 3D/opengl view of the directories “flying back” is coming… =P
Notes
I am not affiliated with Apple, nor have I even used Time Machine personally. Please don’t sue me.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hah, if Apple sues him I would be upset, but not surprised. Sad
January 7th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
nah, you can copy anything (except the name an actual code) and not get sued (unless u sell the program)
anyway Safary (based on kde’s konqueror ) and over 70% of what is macOS is based on open source code (freeBSD and other programs). They are basically just a nice interface with nice marketing
they will lose if they try to sue as msft once tried to.
am sure the dev knows this, so he must b just joking around xD