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A better btrfsA better btrfsPosted Jan 17, 2008 11:08 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: A better btrfs by Velmont Parent article: A better btrfs
OS X's Time Machine product is pretty straightforward -- it does do a weird trick with hard-linking directories, but one could write a perfectly great desktop backup program without any such hacks. It's not really complicated and btrfs doesn't really make it any easier. The problem is that for some reason, people seem to only be interested in writing backup systems that are either really grungy and low-level and often inadequate in practice, or all-singing all-dancing incredibly complex things. I guess this is because the two markets for backup so far are "geeks who want to hack something together for personal use" and "full-time sysadmins who get paid big-bucks to manage large networks".
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Backup progs Posted Jan 17, 2008 15:34 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link] Can you please try mine then, and privately tell me (my e-mail is in the README file in the source code tree) what you feel is positive/negative? http://sf.net/projects/hbackup Note: it's work in progress and a GUI should come one day...
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