Thursday, August 10th 2006

Time Machine

One of Leopard’s new features, aimed at ensuring people improve their Backup habits and enabling intuitive restore. Sadly, it interacts very poorly (i.e., not at all) with FileVault, which makes it all but useless to me.

Resources:

Date Link Notes
2009
Oct 16 10.6: Create networkable, encrypted and copyable Time Machine backups Very neat. I’ve saved a local copy of the scripts for creating and restoring from encrypted disk images.
Feb 28 Time Vault A Linux equivalent, still under development.
2008
May 11th Time Machine Exposed! Using the tms command line tool to explore backups
May 9th Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively Using a modified version of GrandPerspective
Apr 10th JavaScript clone of the UI Pretty damn impressive
Mar 5th Time Machine a pretty good rundown, complete with under-the-hood details
2006
Aug 8 MacWorld First Looks article Where it is mentioned that it was supposed to work in oh, slightly different ways

Stuff It Doesn’t Do Well (Or At All)

  • Exclusions (those nasty big VMware images)
  • Iterative diffs of very large binary files (no, it can’t figure out VMware image changes)
  • Transparent interaction with FileVault