Yeah, I just noticed this line: "Backup Time: Time Machine will back up every night at midnight, unless you select a different time from this menu."
So this is just standard backups, with a (very) slick GUI layered on top. From the impression of the text-only rumor feed, it sounded more impressive, from a filesystem implementation perspective. Still, the GUI integration is pretty nice, and implies that they're backups are in some easily accessed form. Otherwise, extracting hundreds of files from a compressed stream would induce too much delay for the interactive stuff they describe. - Eric On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:58:15AM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: > Reading that site, it sounds EXACTLY like snapshots. It doesn't sound > to require a second disk, it just gives you the option of backing up > to one. Sounds like it snapshots once a day (configurable) and then > "sends" the snapshot to another drive/server if you request it to do > so. Looks like they just made snapshots accesible to desktop users. > Pretty impressive how they did the GUI work too. > -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
