On September 1993 plus 3585 days Jason Komar wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 09:15, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: >> 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 >> > > I don't know if there is a system like that for Linux, but it would be > nice to see.
ReiserFS is aiming for something like this, but more so (without the gui). I'm not sure how much of it is implemented in Reiser4 and how much is waiting for 5 and 6, but the whitepaper makes the stuff that Keld described seem like small potatoes...Hans wants version control in the filesystem, with database functionality (rollbacks and so on and so forth). Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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