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> [1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 Very nice. To me, the biggest things I have grown to love since moving to a mac are: - Spotlight (&
by cmroanirgo 8y ago
> [1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551 http://trafyx.com/?p=2551
Very nice. To me, the biggest things I have grown to love since moving to a mac are:
- Spotlight (& I use it far less than most). You mention Desktop Search as the replacement. Have you wired it up to cmd+space?
- Time Machine (the way it handles going back in time for your current Finder window is awesome). For me, an rsync solution is a poor cousin to Time Machine, purely because of the graphic aspect. It would be awesome to know of a FOSS equivalent to it (but would need to work with your current file manager: thunar).
- blackhaz 8y agoThanks. I don't use the Desktop Search that often but I think one can bind a shortcut to it. On the rsync, I can mount the remote file system and browse through the backups in the Double Commander or Thunar, so the graphical aspect is fully there. Plus, I have reports in the Terminal when the last successful backup was done. I don't really think I miss anything. Edit: the rsync setup to do incremental backups and naming backup folders after the day of the week is mentioned on the rsync's home: https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html It's interesting how much more creative backups can be when you have full control over rsync on which, if I am not wrong, the Time Machine itself is built.
- IronBacon 8y agoI don't know how Time Machine works, but deja-dup integrates with Gnome's Nautilus. In the backed-up dirs, when selecting a file, it offers a menu entry to revert to a previous backed-up version, based on a date.
- jen20 8y agoZFS snapshots on FreeBSD can help with the Time Machine functionality if not the GUI experience.