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First boot with Leopard

par Ewok - 12/08/2006
Following WWDC's annoucements, find in this article an illustrated preview of the new features Leopard brings you.
3. Time Machine
The machine to rewind time bears its name well. The concept of this backup tool is to be able to recover all of your system since a backup or to recover specific documents by traversing the old folders and files. One rewinds time, and the software presentation illustrates this concept well.

New Time Machine configuration panel.


The user is able to choose the backup location,
The duration to keep backups, the schedule, and the files/folders to exclude

The Time Machine application has a original and conceptual graphical interface, it is not too unlike the opening from Star Wars. Once upon a time your files...

When one rewinds the time with the arrows or by directly selecting a date, the windows pass until the selected time. One then finds oneself in a Finder window of old. The user can select the documents to recover and then click on the Restore button.

It's original and rather effective, there is also the benefit of a file preview while you're still in Time Machine. It will require more time to look in to network backups and an option for file synchronisation.
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