On Thursday 26 June 2003 17:15, 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? There is libtrash, wich can be used to replace the unlink system calls with somthing like a mv. but, there is no gui or anything you need. there is no rpm for now, maybe tomorow if i can adapt the ones of pld. for older version of the contents, i don't know, except cvs and subversion :) -- Micha�l Scherer
