{"id":1000108,"date":"2006-08-08T07:32:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/08\/08\/thinking-different-time-machine\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T11:24:16","slug":"thinking-different-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/08\/08\/thinking-different-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Different: Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/events.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/aug_2006\/event\/index.html\">Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC<\/a>, the thing that really surprised me was Time Machine. Where has this been all my life? I am curious about some of the tech details. For instance, does it store diffs like CVS or only entire files? How do I securely delete something? Can I exclude large files I don&#8217;t want to back up to save space? (Update: Yes.) Can I specify redundant backups across multiple hard drives and network connections? Are the backups compressed? Can you backup to removable media? Is a .Mac subscription required? Will this backup system files or just home directories? (Update: Yes.) Will it create bootable backups? Do different file types require custom support, as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/dotmacsync\/\">.Mac Sync<\/a>? Can I back up network clients too? But overall these are only  things a geek would think of and half of them only a geek would care about.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t so impressed when I just heard about Time Machine, but when I actually saw it I was astonished. What surprised me was the user interface. This is decades beyond any other backup program I&#8217;ve ever seen. Once again, Apple threw out conventional thinking and designed something that&#8217;s actually easy to use. I don&#8217;t think other backup programs have changed in any significant way in the last 15 years. Why is only Apple able to think of things like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching yesterday&#8217;s Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC, the thing that really surprised me was Time Machine. Where has this been all my life? I am curious about some of the tech details. For instance, does it store diffs like CVS or only entire files? How do I securely delete something? Can I exclude large files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}