Time Machine for OS X Leopard

[brophey]

Another entry in the Time Machine saga. Be careful if you do a lot of podcasting and use Time Machine. I have 8.9 gigs of Podcasts that are updated regularly, and there's no need to keep this stuff around. However, Time Machine will dilligently back this stuff up

Comments

[artfulreggie]

I think this is a good reminder that user friendly backups and restoration have a long ways to go, but this is certainly a step in the right direction. :)

[simbab]

sbackup is great for me. It has criteria for inclusion/exclusion (e.g. no files over 10MB) and it makes automatic nightlies/dailies via cron (even on laptops that are off overnight-thanks to anacron), and has an algorithmic backup retention system that keeps progressively less backups from the past as time goes on. It saved my ass recently, and the backup format is simple enough to be flexible and usable with standard command line tools. The worst thing that happened was that some files I had (intentionally) deleted reappeared, but I basically got my system back within a few hours.

Over the past few weeks, it has used about 3GB on a 100GB drive.

[artfulreggie]

Unfortunately, your average user can't be expected to be acquainted with all the aspects of backup and recovery to make use of an elegant but abstract tools like these. They need some sort of visualization to know how to interpret what the tool is doing and not so much how. :/