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2009-10-10 , 06:25
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NILFS, rather.

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
A true Time Machine solution would introduce a lot of overhead and add more architectural changes than would be advisable, however having alarmd run an rsync every 24 hours or so should be easy.
Hmm, but then its rather difficult to roll back.

Instead of Time Machine with its GUI and backing up of personal data I mean something like incremental images. They can be made every X hours, or before big changes (manual by user, or auto by e.g. APT). ZFS snapshotting or ODS-2/5 versioning filesystem provide one part of the feature. The boot loader would then simply allow one to use the snapshot (or previous version if was primary at $date_of_snapshot).

I don't know how many resources (or how much time) this would cost. On battery, might no be preferred.
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