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nontroppo:
Actually, some Linux users are working hard to prove me wrong:

http://code.google.com/p/flyback/

Currently it uses rsync, thus it has to scan the whole drive on each backup. The latest Kernel contains inotify, which affords the same benefits as FSevents. They also cannot use multi-links as Linux doesn't cleanly handle hard-links to directories.

My critical caveat though, which is proper system integration, is also unknown, but it should be possible to hook this into Desktop search if they both use inotify.

Note, using rdiff-backup rigged up in this way, will also get you a block-level mechanism.

See also:

http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault

Which I assume is also applicable to cygwin...

f0dder:
There's a thing I've been pondering about wrt. timemachine/whatever use of hardlinks to avoid making backup of unchanged data...

What happens when the file *is* modified, and you look at the "backed up" hardlink from yesterday? Won't you get the changed data, then?

MrCrispy:
The hardlinks point to the data in the backup drive. If the data is modified, the new file is going to get copied as well when the backup is made.

f0dder:
The hardlinks point to the data in the backup drive. If the data is modified, the new file is going to get copied as well when the backup is made.
-MrCrispy (November 16, 2007, 11:42 AM)
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Ah, righty - missed that part. Hardlinks obviously don't work across partition boundaries either :)

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