A friend sent this link to me today with the message: "I finally found at least one reason to use Windows Server!"
I have not found anything similar to this for Linux. Is it out there and if
not would it be feasible to attempt a project like this project?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/scr.mspx
Unix has been technically able to do this since the creation of hardlinks and cron (ie, most likely since before Microsoft even existed as PC in Bill's garage).
It has, or course, only been very recently (last year or two) that harddrive storage space has dropped in price to the point where it is economical to do this.
I implemented my own version of this for SME a while back, using a second 'backup' server that also gets all the users and permissions etc, and set with a 2 hourly cron, so that each user can restore their own files. No admin assistance required - just browse the network and restore the file as it was 2, 4, 6 hours ago, or yesterday, or last week. And as all permissions are kept, users can only access the files they normally have access to.
Rsync is then used once a night to move the data offsite for recovery in the case of a fire etc.
Go to http://www.openminddev.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/MitelSME#Rsync_Snapshot_style_backups if you wish to have a look at my scripts. They are based on (an old version of) Mike Rubel's rsync backup scripts. (See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ for the most recent version of Mike's howto.) NOTE: I really never got around to 'polishing' my scripts at all - and now I know Perl I would probably use a (modified?) version of rsback (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59547) or something similar. Or I'd just code the whole thing in Python because I like Python. Certainly I recommend staying away from Bash scripts - debugging them is an absolute pain.
Cheers,
Rasjid.
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