On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:09:04PM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote: > Network Appliance boxes something like a decade ago). It's not only a > nice feature to have for other reasons, but basically makes this issue > go away. I can't wait until OS all vendors incorporate this > functionality into their filesystems by default. Unfortunately, I > think that Network Applicances might have patents related to this. > I'm counting the days....
Veritas Filesystem (VxFS) has had snapshots since the early 90s, and Solaris 8 picked up snapshot capabilities a year or so ago. Elizabeth Zwicky wrote a paper called "Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs: Things You Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not" in 1991 that may be worth re-reading: http://ftp.at.linuxfromscratch.org/utils/archivers/star/testscripts/zwicky/testdump.doc.html -jeff P.S. I'm also one of the many sysadmins looking for a job. My resume's at http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/resume/jwasilko.txt --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
