Time Machine demo from OS/X Leopard

[giza]

I found a short video of Time Machine for Leopard which shows it in action:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6450839851748235390

I thought it was particularly cool that old address books and photo albums could also be restored through Time Machine.


Also, video footage of leopard cubs:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4886824096316859262

Comments

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

Won't that consume a lot of storage?

[giza.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. There are lots of shortcuts to take, such as diffing text files (and things like address book store their data in XML format), and setting up symlinks in the repositories.

In fact, it's already been done. Check out rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) sometime.

[rasslor.livejournal.com]

The video came from Apple's site. More sneak preview videos are located here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ as well. Please note the text at the bottom saying that the features may change.

[tailen.livejournal.com]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but this technology and the similar one I'm sure MS is coming out with in a year or two, aren't they just a way to never allow you to get rid of data anymore?
How does the average user clean out a HD that saves everything he's ever done. People don't have that kind of HD capacity, especially on laptops.

What about security concerns? Can you choose to get rid of a file entirely?

[giza.livejournal.com]

...which in turn is similar to things like CVS and subversion. Yeah.

I'm sure there will be utilities included that let you delete data that is x days/months/years old, as well as turning off versioning entirely if you want. I've done that before on my Linux box and it's not rocket science.