Well, I attended just such a MS session (ts2) recently. When pressed the answer was that you got all the files in any particular directory that was shadowed replaced. i.e. it was a directory "shadow"/replacement tool. It definitely was NOT a file by file replacement tool.
I am sure they will correct this behavior, and may have already, but at the time (two months ago) this is the way this feature was reported to actually work. (Interestingly, I might also note that it would be nice if MS actually took the time to fix their interesting ways of "puffing" their products. If I had not thought to press them on their "file shadowing", I might also have left the seminar thinking that this was tool worked at the file level.) Bob Finch On Thursday 26 June 2003 10:15 am, 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
