Some fundamental usability issues

[Blaise Alleyne]

Alexandre Strube wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk
>> space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full
>> conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it's work until you clean
>> up manually.
>>     
>
> Firstly: time machine uses directory hard links, so each backup only
> contains different files from the previous version, and the rest is
> all hard links. They have a file system events daemon, so they can
> calculate this easy.
>
>   

Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/