Re: [Cooker] wish for mdk 9.2: file shadow functionality

[Alex Perry]

oops, I accidentally sent a blank message. anyway, I think the file shadow idea is a really good idea, It could be integrated into drakbackup,, and set to run automatically.   - Alex   Please ignore the MSN email address, i'm a Linux user, I swear -- i have to mount partitions, build kernels, and fight through version dependancies just like everyone else! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Keld J�rn Simonsen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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