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| caption = Time Machine preview on Apple's website |
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| latest release date = 08/13/06 |
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'''Time Machine''' |
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'''Time Machine''' is an automatic backup utility announced on ] ] at ] ], scheduled to be included with the ] "Leopard" ]. As demonstrated by Apple, after initial setup, it creates daily incremental backups of every file on the user's system (including the operating system itself), allowing any file that a user has deleted or overwritten to be restored, and from a specific date. Users may restore individual files, or multiple files at once. Time Machine works not only with files in the ], but also from within any application designed to use it. Users may choose to restore photos in ], or ] cards that have been deleted. The underlying technology will be made available for implementation in 3rd-party applications. |
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Time Machine® is a patent-pending software application designed to facilitate testing and simulation of specified system dates and times without modifying or resetting the system clock. This allows defined applications and users to run under any defined future date, past date or time zone desired while the underlying system time remains unchanged. With this ability Time Machine proves itself as a powerful tool for performing "what-if" testing on systems resources and programs. |
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As presented by Apple in its live demonstration, the user interface for Time Machine uses OS X graphics based on the new ] ] (similar to Tiger's ]) to create a user experience employing an actual ] paradigm. Upon invoking Time Machine from the Finder, the active window floats from the user's desktop to a backdrop depicting a time continuum, with each (daily) instance of the active window "stacked" in single file extending backwards behind the current window, conveying the impression of flying through a 'time tunnel'. After paging through these "ghost" windows from the past, a previous version of a document (or a previously-deleted document) may be selected, then retrieved or restored by a single mouseclick. A similar process for restoring deleted photos in iPhoto and a deleted contact in Address Book was also demonstrated. |
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Users may also change several settings relating to Time Machine's backups. These include: |
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*Changing the volume or device to which Time Machine backs up files and settings |
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*Excluding specific files from being backed up |
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*Changing the time at which Time Machine creates back ups (the default time is midnight daily) |
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From looking at Developer Preview, it appears that Time Machine is not compatible with Apple's own ] home folder encryption software, in a sense that files backed-up from mounted FileVault volume are not encrypted on back-up filesystems. Also, Time Machine copies whole encrypted FileVault volumes to back-up drives, essentially storing the same data twice. Thus use of Time Machine by confidentiality-conscious users would require use of hardware disk encryption. |
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==System Requirements== |
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==System Requirements== |
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Time Machine will require a second physical, non-booting hard-drive to be connected to the computer to create local backups. The utility will also offer network backups to a ] host. <ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://news.com.com/New+Apple+feature+sends+users+back+in+time/2100-1046_3-6103007.html?tag=nefd.top |
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|title=New Apple feature sends users back in time |
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|year=] ] |
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|accessdate=2006-08-07 |
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|author=Tom Krazit |
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|publisher=CNet news.com |
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It is unclear at this time whether Time Machine should be considered as a simple back-up utility or as a complete filesystem-level ] mechanism. Apple's website merely states that an API will be released so that third party developers can take advantage of Time Machine. |
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Filesystem-level version control is present also in ], in ] and in ]. |
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