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Linux Alternatives to Apple's Time Machine

by Ray Gomez on 23. Oct, 2008 in Technology

Have you ever caught yourself drooling over Apples Time Machine, but just couldn’t bare jumping ship to MacOS X? You are in luck because you have a few projects to choose from. Most of these applications use rsync (a filesyncing program for *nix) and cron (a task scheduler) to mimic the characteristics of [...]

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Linux "Time Machine" Clone: FlyBack

by Riyad Kalla on 07. Jan, 2008 in Technology

For the folks on Linux that are hankering for the Time Machine functionality in Leopard FlyBack might be what you were looking for.
FlyBack works by creating snapshots of the filesystem using rsync and provides a UI to manage those snapshots and optimizes disk space usage by linking unchanged files back to the last known changed [...]

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