3 Oct
2017
3 Oct
'17
8:45 p.m.
On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:58:39 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'TimeShift is ... quite similar to ... the Time Machine tool in MacOS. ... Snapshots are made using rsync and hard-links and the tool shares common files amongst snapshots in order to save disk space'
No doubt using the --link-dest option in rsync. Which is better than playing fast and loose with the integrity of your file system, which is what Apple’s Time Machine does.