[ge-talk] Backup Server?

[Ryan Leavengood]

OK I'm joking a bit with the subject as a reference to my other
"Notification Server?" thread, but this is a valid question: should
Haiku (past R1) provide a standard (and user friendly) backup system,
probably implemented in the usually BeOS server architecture?

Max OS X Leopard will have "Time Machine", a rather clever interface
on top of an incremental backup system. I think the style of that fits
in with the BeOS/Haiku philosophy.

A simple BFS query on file modification time to see which files have
changed since the last backup could make incremental backing up pretty
simple. The files could be backed up to an external hard drive, or to
a separate internal drive. Then a friendly GUI allowing restoring of
some or all files would be the last part. For a desktop OS I think
backing up to tape is overkill.

It may be debatable whether back-up is a "core system service" that
the OS needs to provide, but Leopard may change the landscape on that.
The average person does not back up, and I think Apple is trying to
change that, and I think they are smart in doing that.

Ryan