I'm interested to know if anyone has any information regarding how Time Machine and Versions work together?
One of the complaints with Time Machine is that creates full-copy back-ups of changed files, rather than only backing up the changes since the last back-up, and then flattening portions of the back-ups when space needs freeing up.
Versions meanwhile will work in exactly the latter way; only changes to the file are saved each time, resulting in an original file, with a big list of changes appended, that can be flattened as old versions disappear.
What I'd like to know is whether Time Machine will be gaining the same behaviour, or if it'll still be copying the whole file each time?
If it retains its old behaviour then it seems that if I have a file with four versions, and a back-up of the file with three versions, then when a new back-up occurs I'll end up with one copy of the file with three versions, and one with four versions on my back-up drive, which seems even more wasteful than the current situation!
I'd kind of hoped Time Machine would get incremental file back-ups, but nothing to that effect seems to be in the list of Lion changes?
One of the complaints with Time Machine is that creates full-copy back-ups of changed files, rather than only backing up the changes since the last back-up, and then flattening portions of the back-ups when space needs freeing up.
Versions meanwhile will work in exactly the latter way; only changes to the file are saved each time, resulting in an original file, with a big list of changes appended, that can be flattened as old versions disappear.
What I'd like to know is whether Time Machine will be gaining the same behaviour, or if it'll still be copying the whole file each time?
If it retains its old behaviour then it seems that if I have a file with four versions, and a back-up of the file with three versions, then when a new back-up occurs I'll end up with one copy of the file with three versions, and one with four versions on my back-up drive, which seems even more wasteful than the current situation!
I'd kind of hoped Time Machine would get incremental file back-ups, but nothing to that effect seems to be in the list of Lion changes?