On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Michael Watterson wrote= : > On 02/08/2011 21:04, Tamas Rudnai wrote: > > Is there any backup software like this available to Windows and Linux? > > Nothing special about Timemachine. > > Solutions for DOS, OS/2, UNIX, NT, VMS etc etc before Apple ever had > Timemachine. > Sure, however, what nice in it is that it is included in the standard installation, and when I plug a new hard drive it asks me if I would like t= o use the disk as a backup drive. If I say yes then it does everything for me= .. No need to think or setup or read tons of docs how to configure. And when I need a file back, I just say 'Enter to Time Machine' from the System Preferences or other places and browse files while can going backwards in time. > NT/AKA Windows has had "AT" and ntbackup since 1993 > NTBackup is a good idea, thanks -- Wikipedia said was not on the standard installation but can be found on the install disk. Will try it out, thanks. > cron on Unix/Linux (was doing scheduled backups on Cromix in 1986) > Sure, however, you need to be a system administrator to set it up correctly= , testing in a separated test server if you can restore from backup etc as yo= u are writing your scripts to launch cpio or tar or whatever from crontab to do the backup. So you need to test if that works. Then you still need to do something to be able to browse files on the backup system, to be able to open it by normal apps to see file content, so it seems to be much much les= s than what Apple is providing. Once I was even thinking to use CVS as a backup -- so the repository is on the external hard drive and with a graphical CVS interface could browse files. Not quite the same as Time Machine as still cannot open a Word document from there for example unless checking it out first, however, coul= d store versions of files. Tamas > Many solutions of incremental scheduled backup.. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .