Eclipse has the very nifty "Compare with Local History" feature which lets you compare all files in the workspace against previous revisions. This is very useful to recover older versions even when they are not in a source control system, and it works because Eclipse keeps snapshots of all files when you save them. Eclipse (by default) ...
How can I create a (secondary) backup to a offsite location of a timemachine backup residing on a apple timecapsule? Possible destinations are Amazon S3, Mosso Cloud Files, Generic SSH/SCP servers, ... ...
When I'm testing software I'm going to deploy or running through tests in the Windows world, I'll use VMWare images so that I can start from a fresh, known state at the beginning of each test. This has worked really well so that I can install software on different OS flavors or with other/different apps and drivers loaded. This makes i...
Hello! I need the reference, if it exists, to Time Machine's API or simply some commands that can change the disk in use with Time Machine and back! I'd like the script I'm going to write to do the following: Change from disk A to disk B Force Time Machine backup Change from disk B back to disk A Thank you! ...
I need to parse the TimeMachine.plist file to get the current backup path, but I have no clue how to parse the data correctly. I get that there's a data field, which is supposed to be encoded as base64 somewhere inside that plist, but I just can't find what I need inside it... Can anyone point out whatever it is I'm missing, and what to...
There has been a similar question concerning comparison of file trees, but it was suggested to start a new question. I think to write a file tree comparison tool for huge directory trees including extended attributes. The available tools like find, diff, xattr seem to be not optimum for that. I want to compare huge file trees incremen...