-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:27:25 CDT, David Masover said:
[...] >>Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a >>dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary >>tree... That might be a nice new archive format. I know Apple already >>uses something like this for their dmg packages. > > > Hmm.. you mean like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax' or 'rsync'? :) No, a dmg is an OS X program installer. It appears to be a disk image of sorts. So this is the backup idea in reverse. They even "optimize" (repack? defrag?) the hard drive after each update. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQr+kIXgHNmZLgCUhAQKMbg/9GMCtXtlC76wYEvzALVQROXh5xTKHJg8q +sngIMVKfCPOwGVe62tUfrzGaQ0/t9FJ/p40yAzRrWHV7msJWwQZYjf918AA1Vmg IMmsbzFPH+3oRROSfwWcPB/MPG5n1YVfsaq09BUSFM7pasubGgEiFz3TA7gwRTh1 sOw/3J1mlhcxUUbQJrLPAe6e4u59h6MwUZVSdnF2D0Gnnxgwvl8ZemLVSqDaaMGs F7fHJWUd7pZO+d4h2c9AnFLQQL5TvJHDOWuHcGVHZbt/Vaz7F79TWWyC74MeDUA6 ErSGbrZ4fLnocP8zqmDkWJ9GnqE/w9HAhDC2vPtRqCl4z8Mbc/0e5FOxi3M+7WVH TXXBTKnBQG97DWEwneVRFndmhzP/rccnCYIlWhTugiATkStNkOKabTHVp2tpC7lB VP+NwBsMFoaS3vvKcYMF9709OglLRdGmHoju87UIvyLLUZ1fYvZ2+7WlEez0cqSh I0GTCq8gshagIAKhjR/vhVT0i20xyrS/oJEIYdtXz470E2S9tf1NvIwlokO153wL 6PaAN2okmC+YLG+lMeHDZs2lKDfmPzOtbzxR8XyEQHLxsbdWJBnm9B6Epa02iiE1 wZ8feMMsAOjzb/8iiZFqMRROe+j9m+beDLMdc3fYVrNQM72EyPAMw1zUr1GgXeVA USJDqNWK5S4= =BpTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
