Aaron writes about Parallel Flickr, which he wrote because he is a far, far better man than I. Particularly of note: instead of a local backup it's a web service, and it uses Flickr auth so it can preserve privacy.

A project to make git repositories out of Wikipedia, with the aim of allowing distibution and backups.

This works.

"MacVault is a simple, automated ruby-scripted git-based set-and-forget backup utility."

"The providers and consumers of 'unlimited' services will necessarily have conflicting interests. If your interest is to store as much data per dollar as possible, it will be the interest of your provider for you to store as little data per dollar as possible. The more you utilize, the more antagonistic this relationship will become."

This only does the bare minimum of what I'd want from a Flickr backup script- image data only, no metadata, which is the bit I actually care more about- but it does back up favourites, which is handy. I've used flickrtouchr (which this is based on) to recover images that their owners have made private, which is perhaps naughty but certainly useful.

"You keep personal data in all sorts of places on the internets. Jellyroll brings them together onto your own site." Aha. I love it when the internet turns out to have built something before I need it. (Oddly, I found this while looking for Django + CouchDB hints.)

"We will launch with the ability to backup Flickr and a blog (via RSS feed). Google Docs, Twitter feeds, Youtube and Facebook backup are all in the works" Interesting. I think I'd prefer self-hosted deep aggregation to an offline backup, though. Now I just have to, you know, build it...

Dan fixed this (rather annoying and definitely underdocumented) issue this morning. So far, my experience with Mac OS X Server has been... whelming.

How to persuade Time Machine not to back up system files on the user version, with reference to the fact that Mac OS X Server lets you force clients not to. (Turns out Tom knew about this before the post, let alone now.)

tms "allows basic cvs style operations on local (not yet Time Capsule) Time Machine volumes" "

"I am locked because I have Time Machine backups, [and] Time Machine backups can only be restored on macs" What use is a Windows backup without Windows? Anyway: hfsplus on Linux will read your data. (Hm, can it cope with the directory hard links?)

"After yesterday's Airport updates, folks starting noticing that USB drives plugged in to Airport Extreme Base Stations were suddenly recognized by Time Machine as valid backup drives." Hurrah! Not that I have an Extreme. Ah well.

A pretty detailed run through of Time Machine, including hard links, UI critique, plist inspection, how multiple machines back up to one drive, and FileVault interactions.

The world catches up to 2lmc again. Well, actually, we would have loved something as easy as this, compared to our home server, a rickety old Linux box without even RAID. Wonder if there's UK availablity?

My skepticism about Time Capsule appears to have been premature, perhaps, if 10.5.2 includes remote Time Machine on its laundry-list of other features. Should be a must-do update.

"the current word is that AirPort Extreme owners are out of luck when it comes to turning their AirPort Disk into a Time Capsule" but it might come in 10.5.2?

Impressively fast (if also fairly empty) page, but it lets me hang a question here: does this mean that you need this device (as opposed to any random server) for wireless Time Machine?

A live chart showing for the price (in dollars) per gigabyte of storage on commodity (SATA) drives. Handy, since drawing those yourself can be a right pain. A UK version would be nice though.

(Looks like a) Japanese application for revision control and managment with a spiffy overlay interface. It says it doesn't need an external drive (like Time Machine, which it's bound to be compared to), so where does it store files? Worth investigating.

Matt Sergeant's CamelBones app for burning a big folder to a selection of DVDs. Bound to be less painful than doing the same thing with iPhoto (although you don't get to keep the metadata, hm). Bit of a shame about the metal, though.

Microsoft are definitely copying Apple: "[Backup] is one of the worst utilities you'll ever use--although it's such a poor piece of work, it's likely you won't bother to use it."

Looks like a really hard problem, the way he wants it done. Maybe with an initial file list + later modification queue from kqueue + using whatever SuperDuper! does to maintain funky attributes it could be done, though.

On HFS+, Mac OS X 10.5, Time Machine, backups, and stuff. A typically good Siracusa overview article. Mentions the dreaded phrase "hard links".

Same idea as DV Backup, but years ago, to VHS tapes. Also nutty.

Genius, if somewhat nutty