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> 4. TimeCapsule for iOS. For Pete Sake this needs to be a thing. It will never be, because iCloud is a cash cow.
by smnrchrds 5y ago
> 4. TimeCapsule for iOS. For Pete Sake this needs to be a thing.
It will never be, because iCloud is a cash cow.
- coldtea 5y agoFull TimeCapsule might not exist, but local (e.g. to your Mac) iOS apps backups had been a thing since forever... Unless something changed, they still are.
- dwighttk 5y agoI don’t think it is incremental.
- Jcowell 5y agoWhat do you mean incremental?
- arthurcolle 5y agoI could be wrong, but its something along the lines of... You have 500gb of files at t0, that gets backed up as Backup1.backup, then you download a 15kb text file and kick off another backup. Instead of completely regenerating a backup of all the data, it will instead recreate a new Backup snapshot, but it will still use that original Backup1.backup file and then have some data structure in place that allows you to just incrementally backup the new data while still preserving the integrity of the old files and the integrity of the previous snapshot.
- rubatuga 5y agoThey definitely are incremental!
- dwighttk 5y agoAh, you’re right, I didn’t mean incremental, I meant like time machine where you keep a history of the increments.
- astrange 5y agoIf your Mac backs up with Time Machine then they literally are. But restoring a phone with the backup takes a long time since there aren't partial restores.