Comments on: Why Time Machine is more than rsync with a pretty face http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2008/06/29/why-time-machine-is-more-than-rsync-with-a-pretty-face/ Guillaume Laurent's tech blog Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:23:45 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andre Gronemeier http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2008/06/29/why-time-machine-is-more-than-rsync-with-a-pretty-face/comment-page-1/#comment-2201 Andre Gronemeier Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:58:30 +0000 http://telegraph-road.org/blog/?p=51#comment-2201 "The level of integration in the OS is unprecedented. Good luck ever implementing that on Linux." Implementing that for KDE would not be too hard. You would just have to implement a KIO-slave to get this functionality in every KDE-application (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO for details). “The level of integration in the OS is unprecedented. Good luck ever implementing that on Linux.”

Implementing that for KDE would not be too hard.
You would just have to implement a KIO-slave to get this functionality in every KDE-application (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO for details).

]]> By: glaurent http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2008/06/29/why-time-machine-is-more-than-rsync-with-a-pretty-face/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 glaurent Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:38:35 +0000 http://telegraph-road.org/blog/?p=51#comment-2192 A version control system works mostly on files being changed, in the case of Mail it's mostly directories being changed. A VCS would quickly amount to exactly what Time Machine does, i.e. incremental backups. <i>So Time machine still isn’t doing anything that rsync can’t do</i> You didn't understand my point. Time Machine is integrated in (some) OS/X apps. rsync is just a stand-alone tool. A version control system works mostly on files being changed, in the case of Mail it’s mostly directories being changed. A VCS would quickly amount to exactly what Time Machine does, i.e. incremental backups.

So Time machine still isn’t doing anything that rsync can’t do

You didn’t understand my point. Time Machine is integrated in (some) OS/X apps. rsync is just a stand-alone tool.

]]> By: CD-Host http://telegraph-road.org/blog/2008/06/29/why-time-machine-is-more-than-rsync-with-a-pretty-face/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 CD-Host Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:04:21 +0000 http://telegraph-road.org/blog/?p=51#comment-2189 I know this an old post. I just tried this and as of dec/2008 you can only restore a mailbox (i.e. the entire file) not a message. I don't understand why they can't use a version control system for their internal apps with mostly text information. GUI is cool though and you are reading the old messages. So Time machine still isn't doing anything that rsync can't do by assuming that messages are in the same directory now as they were in the past. So yeah I think KDE or Gnome could offer this (and should). I know this an old post. I just tried this and as of dec/2008 you can only restore a mailbox (i.e. the entire file) not a message. I don’t understand why they can’t use a version control system for their internal apps with mostly text information.

GUI is cool though and you are reading the old messages. So Time machine still isn’t doing anything that rsync can’t do by assuming that messages are in the same directory now as they were in the past. So yeah I think KDE or Gnome could offer this (and should).

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