# Install httm with Homebrew

Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs. Version 0.50.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:httm
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install httm
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:httm
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.50.2
- **Source summary:** Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-30T12:38:51Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- bowie (alias)
- equine (alias)
- httm (alias)
- ounce (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.50.2
## Project history and usage

httm is a Rust command-line tool for finding and restoring file-level versions from snapshot and backup systems. Its own README frames it as a CLI Time Machine for ZFS, btrfs, NILFS2, Time Machine, and Restic-style storage.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in March 2022, and crates.io records the httm crate beginning in May 2022. The project grew around a Unix idea: expose snapshot history at the file level, rather than treating snapshots mainly as dataset-wide rollback machinery.

### Adoption history

httm reached package-manager users through crates.io and later through system package channels represented in the input metadata, including Homebrew, Alpine, and Nix. GitHub topics and README examples place its audience among ZFS, btrfs, FreeBSD, Linux, homelab, and shell users.

### How it is used

Users run httm against one or more paths to print unique versions by size and modification time, browse versions interactively, output JSON, find deleted files in snapshots, and work with alternate stores such as Time Machine or mounted Restic repositories.

### Why package nerds care

The package is interesting because it turns filesystem snapshot plumbing into a small composable CLI. The related ounce and bowie tools show the same package-nerd pattern: wrap a focused executable into shell workflows for dynamic snapshots and diffing historical file versions.

### Timeline

- 2022: The kimono-koans/httm repository was created on GitHub.
- 2022: The httm crate appeared on crates.io.
- 2022: The author described httm's inspiration in file-level ZFS and btrfs snapshot workflows.
- 2024: Release notes included macOS local snapshot support in the 0.35 line.

### Related projects

- Related tools include ZFS and btrfs snapshot tooling, NILFS2, Apple Time Machine, Restic, and httm-adjacent wrappers such as ounce and bowie.

### Sources

- Official GitHub README, author project article, crates.io metadata, and GitHub release metadata.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/httm.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/httm.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation