-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.) >>
Did they tell you how much it would cost for the storage to go with this? >>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. > This can be done with rsync in backup mode with hard links. I haven't tried it yet though. Remember, binary files (ie word docs) don't make nice diffs (usually bigger than the file itself). If you have something that makes nice diffs (OpenOffice.org xml), why have the filesystem do it when better tools are available (ie CVS). If you don't have something that makes nice diffs, you had better have lots of disk available. What's wrong with good old backups?? (amanda for instance). Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE++xe+rJK6UGDSBKcRAgvwAKCPRt0d61uYvJ6I4o8fNPkyUWxWnwCdHTQm ubNpfkW5iGEcyaxLB6+dZmg= =hzsB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
