Windows has a really good basis for it though, in volume shadow copy. I also don't understand why Microsoft never built a time machine based on that. Well, they kinda did but only on samba shares. But not locally.
But these days they want you to subscribe to their cloud storage so the versioning is done there, which makes sense in their commercial point of view.
I think snapshots on ZFS are better than time machine though. Time machine is a bit of a clunky mess of soft links that can really go to shit on a minor corruption. Leaving you with an unrestorable backup and just some vague error messages.
I worked a lot with macs and I've had my share of bad backups when trying to fix people's problems. I've not seen ZFS fail like that. It's really solid and tends to indicate issues before they lead to bigger problems.
Shadow Protect by StorageCraft was brilliant. Pretty sure MS actually licensed Shadow Copy from them, but I could be mistaken. It's been a while since I played in that space.
But these days they want you to subscribe to their cloud storage so the versioning is done there, which makes sense in their commercial point of view.
I think snapshots on ZFS are better than time machine though. Time machine is a bit of a clunky mess of soft links that can really go to shit on a minor corruption. Leaving you with an unrestorable backup and just some vague error messages.
I worked a lot with macs and I've had my share of bad backups when trying to fix people's problems. I've not seen ZFS fail like that. It's really solid and tends to indicate issues before they lead to bigger problems.