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> Although neither the webpage nor README explains how it works, I'm guessing it misses a vital Time Machine feature, which is FSLogger. I don't know what FSLo
by Jedd 7y ago
> Although neither the webpage nor README explains how it works, I'm guessing it misses a vital Time Machine feature, which is FSLogger.
I don't know what FSLogger is, and you don't describe the functionality, and you say that you guess that this new free software suite doesn't provide it.
Is it something like inotify on GNU/Linux?
I do constant backups of 500GB of data via syncthing from my main machines (desktop, laptop) into my archiver, which then uses borgbackup to run an archive / snapshot periodically. Syncthing takes at most a minute to pick up on changes via inotify.
Is this the kind of OSX-only killer feature that you're hinting at?
- akvadrako 7y agoFSLogger is like inotify but for the whole disk. Inotify is just for files and directories; it doesn't scale to millions of directories. It also would require a full rescan on every boot because installing the watches will take so long you will miss changes. I "guess" because no backup program for Linux supports watching whole filesystems for events. There are ways it could happen with recent kernels, but they are poorly documented and not designed for backups. Nobody has done it so the performance impact is also unclear.