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[email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:27:25 CDT, David Masover said:
[...]
>>Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a
>>dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary
>>tree... That might be a nice new archive format. I know Apple already
>>uses something like this for their dmg packages.
>
>
> Hmm.. you mean like 'tar' or 'cpio' or 'pax' or 'rsync'? :)
No, a dmg is an OS X program installer. It appears to be a disk image
of sorts. So this is the backup idea in reverse.
They even "optimize" (repack? defrag?) the hard drive after each update.
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