It appears to be automagic file versioning - save a file, and a copy of the old file gets squirreled away for safe keeping at the same time, with no need to wait for some special time of day/night for a monolithic backup to be performed. I'd imagine it'll have exclusion controls for things like large video files. Hopefully it'll be simple to control where the backups are stored - it'd obviously make sense for a setup with multiple hard drives to keep the current and old copies on different physical drives.
One thing I'm particularly looking forward to - it's probably not difficult to fudge it with Tiger - is having Spotlight work across a LAN. That'll be very handy for me, given I tend to have two or three 'books on the network - one search covering them all would be a very sensible progression.
Interesting that display resolution independence wasn't mentioned at all, given that seems like a Leopard certainty. I'm thinking SVG's going to be playing quite a large role behind the scenes in Leopard.
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Date: 2006-08-08 06:37 pm (UTC)One thing I'm particularly looking forward to - it's probably not difficult to fudge it with Tiger - is having Spotlight work across a LAN. That'll be very handy for me, given I tend to have two or three 'books on the network - one search covering them all would be a very sensible progression.
Interesting that display resolution independence wasn't mentioned at all, given that seems like a Leopard certainty. I'm thinking SVG's going to be playing quite a large role behind the scenes in Leopard.