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I have a spare hard drive, I'm informed about OSX, and I wouldn't bother trying it if you gave me a full licenced copy. I'm engaging with this discussion with you and I'm part of that 99.9%. You won't convince them to try something different. So the 99.9% of OSX users won't even consider that they would ever need any additional functionality.

Your biggest issue is that while Time Machine may not be perfect, it works so well and so simply that most OSX users turn it on and then never think of backups again. I'm sure there is a niche of users that need the extra functionality that you're offering, but it will be hard toĢ) reach them to tell them your product existsģ) convince them they can rely on your product for their backups You will find that for 99.9% of the population, time machine is more than enough. It really doesn't need any more comparing to Time Machine, version 1 has been selling for over a year and I'm well aware that Apple have a backup solution built into the OS.

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What I'm really after is some idea how to portray the idea to users that the backups are not taking up as much space as the Finder says with Get Info, and to demonstrate that in fact it's an order of magnitude less. Please try the app before commenting, because this has a lot of significant differences that you won't understand until you try it.Įdit 2: Sorry if I wasn't clear enough above. I'm not sure many will understand, and that could sink the whole idea.Įdit: guys, I'm fully aware of time machine. What I'm really asking for help here is a way to explain to users that the Finder is lying to them, and that the snapshots really do use a tiny amount of space. Before that can be done I'm asking reddit for help. There's not much point in reading the documentation, that was for the old version and all needs to be rewritten.

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You can download a copy of the app that does all this here: (Mac Backup Guru). That's because that'll give du the chance to not count the size of the same item twice when it's counting everything. One way you can see the true size is to type 'du -csh folder' where folder is the parent directory of the snapshots. That's because hardlinks do look just like the original files to most apps (including the Finder). The issue is that when you Get Info on a snapshot, the Finder will tell you it's using ~500GB, whereas in reality it's using 3GB. Rather than just the normal 2 you'd be able to fit. The upshot of this is that if you have say a full 500GB internal drive with a million files on it, and a 1TB external backup disk, you could store a daily snapshot of the changes on your internal on your external for about 6 months (about 200 snapshots). When you make a backup, the first backup is a direct clone of whatever you're backing up.Īfter that, hardlinks to that are made for items that have not been modified, and they use very little space (and are fast to make), and give you full browsable copies of your filesystem which appear to be an exact clone of the original.

This is in regards to hardlink backups which are browsable by the user as if it were an ordinary filesystem.