On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:15, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > 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. That's called rsync. (-: > 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? AFAICT, AtFS will do file versioning, which is what you seem to want. Alternately, one of the "write on CD" overlay filesystems might be tweakable for it. I don't think any of the fabulous GUI tools of which you speak exist, which of course implies something to keep yourself constructively busy with starting now. (-: Cheers; Leon
