On Thu Jun 26 17:15 +0200, 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. > 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?
AFAIK, there is no such system, but I may this summer try to hack a similar functionality onto ext2/ext3, as described here: http://trikuare.cx/mt/archives/000164.php -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently playing: Rush - Power Windows - Marathon Linux 2.4.21-0.15mdk 16:35:00 up 2 days, 1:53, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
