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To: antiRepublicrat
Ars Technica had a very in-depth article on this a while back. I can dig it up if you want.

I just did a search. Is it this one?

Could it be improved in the future by doing backups at the block-level rather than the file-level? Yes, that would be good for very large files. But in the meantime, this is a great backup system with easy setup, use, and great interface.

Time Machine is great. And no doubt it will only get better in the future.

18 posted on 10/04/2010 12:33:01 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776
Could it be improved in the future by doing backups at the block-level rather than the file-level?

That's the article. Block-level would be great and let me use it to back up my VMWare virtual hard drives, which I exclude now because it would mean a 10-30 GB backup every time I started a VM. Messing with block-level is a great thing about ZFS and would allow this, but Apple's experiment with ZFS seems to have stalled for some reason.

19 posted on 10/04/2010 12:59:48 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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