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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:15
AM
Subject: [Cooker] wish for mdk 9.2: file
shadow functionality
Hi!
I have just been to a MS marketing seesion for their
Windows Server 2003
and one of the few key selling points there is the
volume shadowing
feature. This is a way to find deleted files, or older
versions of
files (eg if you accidentially deleted some of the
contents.)
I would like to see that kind of functionality also in mdk
9.2.
It seems nice to have.
What I think one could do is to reserve
some space for backups.
Then one cron job could be run to make backups
every day, or every
hour or so. Backups should not be taken of system files
that are not
changed. Backups should be compressed and could be diffs.
When space is being tight some older versions should be deleted,
but
maybe the original should be kept. Some excludsion list should
be
available.
There should then be a utility and gui to find older
versions of
a file, given a specific file path. Users should be able to
restore
only their own files. That is, the gui should be the normal
file
browsing gui, whatever that be.
Is there such a system for
Linux and is it already in MDK?
Best
regards
keld
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