Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:25:58 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: hartzell@alerce.com Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20081006182558.708e4094@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <18666.33296.607120.889620@almost.alerce.com> References: <48E9E1BB.6020908@ispro.net> <001AD718-D25B-421B-8B0F-CE71FA5A7CF0@gid.co.uk> <48EA21AE.80607@ispro.net> <ad79ad6b0810060809s7772db5icc140a19d59b2087@mail.gmail.com> <20081006184934.04A645B4C@mail.bitblocks.com> <18666.33296.607120.889620@almost.alerce.com>
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:24:32 -0700
George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote:
> There were a couple of threads about using kqueue or other FreeBSD
> tools to build something like Mac OS X's Time Machine. R1soft's
> software sounds very similar.
Time machine doesn't do continuous backups, it does them once an hour
or so. People have built similar systems on top of rsync; I did it on
top of zfs (turned out to be to fragile, though). You then just need a
spiffy GUI for wondering through the backups.
<mike
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