Apple today previewed Mac OS X Leopard which features a number of new technologies, one of which is called “Time Machine.” With Mac OS X Leopard and Time Machine, can you back up and preserve everything on your Mac automatically plus you can go “back in time” to recover anything you’ve ever backed up.
It’s simple. The first time you attach an external drive to your Mac with Mac OS X Leopard, Time Machine asks if you’d like to back up to that drive. Say “yes” and Time Machine will handle the rest in the background, automatically, so you don’t have to deal with back ups anymore.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls Time Machine a “breakthrough feature” that’s just another example of “how Mac OS X leads the industry in operating system innovation.”
In the beginning, Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard makes a complete backup of all the files on your system including:
• system files
• applications
• accounts
• preferences
• music
• photos
• movies
• documents
• and everything else
As you make changes, Time Machine backs up only what changes to minimize the space required on your backup drive. Since backups are stored on your device by date, you can browse through your entire system as it appeared on any date. It’s like a “Time Machine” for your Mac (into the past, not the future, of course).
How Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine works:
Direct link to the video via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiMW7DIGwNw
Find out more about Time Machine and other new Mac OS X features via Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard Sneak Peek pages here.
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Brilliant, Brilliant, only one thing . . . SPRING!!!??!!, oh well, guess i wond be getting that mac pro until universal maya and cs3 anyhow (still tempting though)
What’s wrong with Spring 07? March is Spring…April is Spring…I’d rather Apple took an extra 30 days to get everything right…Time machine looks great!
What a crappy YouTube link, go here instead:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html
but what if i want to completely delete my porn so my wife doesn’t find out!!!?!?!?!?
i hope they have improved the speed of ‘secure empty trash’!
Apple has posted a number of video previews regarding Leopard…
Leopard Videos
i think it’s funny how visually time machine is similar to vista’s flip3d, but time machine is genuinely innovative, and flip3d is… alt+tab…
Riley,
Wanking off to porn while married can develop into a psychotic disassociative disorder. I recommend against it. Stick with only looking at your wife and you will be happier.
This single feature is reason enough to upgrade.
I LOVE it!
Now, can we go back in time to when MS did not exist and just start over?
Oh, wait… that’s the future.
very true
eiscir:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060730-7383.html
yeah, truly innovative. Although I commend Apple for knowing how to make these things easy-to-use (the one in XP and soon in Vista will probably send Joe Average screaming into the hills). But Time Machine “genuinely innovative”? Sorry.
It kind of sounds like an improved version of system restore that they have in Win XP…
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The chief difference is that this hopefully doesn’t lock your f#$@ing system up.
And before you flame me, I’m all for Apple taking the best features of other OS’s. It would be stupid for them NOT to quickly take the best ideas of other companies and improving them. (e.g., two button mouse)
I have to admit that so far, I am a little underewhelmed. I don’t see a compelling reason to go spend $130.00 to upgrade from Tiger. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
This is going to force the purchase of a few extra GB of drive space. OK, this may be why you’re going to need a TB inside.
This isn’t the most attractive feature mentioned. My wife will be drooling over Mail until she gets her sweaty hands on it … and iCal, currently not that useful, gets a huge boost here. What really got me, though, was “Spaces” … the Virtual Desktop option. Half the time I barely ‘use’ one screen, the other half …
As for “Spring” instead of “January”, it’s a bit arbitrary. But it DID crash during the demo – sort of like a Vista demo. There’s no huge rush to get this out. Vista is pretty much competing against Tiger and it would be a good business strategy to manage the hype and viral marketing by having the two come out close enough together as to force a comparison.
Time Machine is an amazing technology, and it’ll be cool to see how it works in person with any application (that supports it).
Questions:
– what if you scroll back to a date when the current window doesn’t exist, such as a folder window?
– is Time Machine transparently supported by any app? What happens if you try to use it with an app that doesn’t support it.
We need Time Machine support for the clipboard.
“I copied something an hour ago, what was it?”
This tech also renders features such as chat logging pointless. Say, you’re chatting with a buddy, and you want to know what you said to him or her last week. Press Time Machine and the current window shows previous conversations as you scroll back in time. I don’t think it works this way, but it’s cool!
clyde,
They only showed 10 of the features, and probably not the 10 best ones. They specifically said there were some Top Secret features that weren’t going to be shared yet. By the time this is available, you will be ready with your $130. It’s going to be nearly a year yet.
PLUS DON’T FORGET.
If you didn’t watch the keynote (I did) Steve mentioned in the Keynote that there are other ‘top secret’ features (he even had a keynote page with a ‘top secret’ stamp) in Leopard that Apple wasn’t ready or cannot show as of now.
I guess you can’t let Microsoft see everything as of yet.
If you want to see the high quality Leopard videos:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
Time Machine looks really awesome, but I doubt I would ever use it. Perfect for people who don’t want to bother backing their data.
I’d like to know how Time Machine will work with a MacBook Pro (or PowerBook, even) when a second drive may not be available – I don’t usually travel with a second drive. How much space is going to be needed for backups? It’s a great feature – like System Restore, but better, because it allows the user to only back up certain files instead of the whole snapshot as SysRes does.
Yeah, Coolfactor! What I said over here:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10450/
So far this is the best Leopard feature that has been announced thus far. Spaces has been done before and there are many implementations of the virtual desktop idea, but Time Machine so far is the feature that can sell the OS to me.
Riley, you let your wife know your login name & password to the hidden identity on your hard drive with all the pron on it?
So, then whats the point of Secure Empty Trash when Time Machine can recover it, or will it only work on files that were just deleted it the regular Empty Trash????
Wicked Awesome!
I’m lazy, so this’ll be great instead of manual backup (I’m cheap, too, so I wouldn’t buy automated software).
This is the best feature of Leopard that was introduced today. Boot Camp is by far the overall best. However, in the big picture, I am a tad bit disappointed with the Leopard that was hown today. Most of it was just eye candy and the big feature (Time Machine) has been available on Windows and Linux for years! I hope more features spring out of Leopard later…. or else it will just be a mediocre Tiger in my eyes.
Just my opinion, tho.
Tubes: “However, in the big picture, I am a tad bit disappointed with the Leopard that was hown today. Most of it was just eye candy and the big feature (Time Machine) has been available on Windows and Linux for years! I hope more features spring out of Leopard later…. or else it will just be a mediocre Tiger in my eyes.”
I have to agree with that. Even Time Machine is BLOAT to me. Some will love it. Me? disable immediately.
To “inno-what?”:
Reference to Microsoft’s week year old announcement as “counterargument” to Apple’s innovation is ridiculous. Microsoft does not hold “innovation” preference just because they made PR with this just before they knew Jobs will hold the conference.
And many of you completely missed the point: “Time Machine” does not do the slow clumpsy cuts in your hard drive system, always eating your space and leaving you with the sense that the space will end just now. “Time Machine” leaves your hard-drive free and works fast with the best UI possible.
Tubes: “(Time Machine) has been available on Windows and Linux for years!”
No, Windows and Linux did not ever had that flexible and fast system yet.