Feature: Archive old files to a different volume

[Jens]

Originally Posted by KeeperOfTheSoul

SuperDuper! is currently very good at creating clone backups of the hard drive to provide an emergency disk to boot off of if the main drive crashes but doesn't really protect me from my own stupidity such as deleting a file then realising after I've made a backup.

Hi,
I agree completely! I'm looking for a backup solution for my Macbook which does that too. A perfect utility would provide me with a means to get my book running as fast as possible again while still allowing to save my backup _anywhere_ (external disk, network share, SMB share, FTP site, ...) and perhaps even provide a bootable rescue CD which can access the network share and reload the image. This could potentially be a simple Linux system with a menu-based backup / verify / restore options.

It would allow versioning (ie. multiple versions / revisions of files) while only storing the differences (so it would be possible to back up large files that change frequently, like VMware Fusion images, without running out of disk space) between file revisions. And it would ideally be a service that runs in the background all the time watching for file changes and storing these changes, for example, every hour.

Arconis DriveImage (for Windows) does all that, unfortunately I haven't found a tool for OS X that does something similar. Any ideas?