On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-opensolaris.649b73 at mired.org> wrote: > > Apple > provides a nice user interface with their "time machine" technology, > except - well, they do backups instead of snapshots, which requires a > separate disk (which gives them a plus for being useful if the data > disk fails), but take more time and uses a proprietary format on disk > that's opaque to anything but their software.
This is actually not true - they just put a bunch of copies of your data on an external drive. ?The code for the program that manages this is proprietary, if that's what you meant. Still, zfs snapshots are a lot more efficient and faster than Time Machine (about a second for each snap, instead of 30 min in the cast of a Time Machine backup I did today :(
