On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:34 -0400, Barry, Christopher wrote:
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:44 AM
> > To: Barry, Christopher
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Unionfs] an idea I had 
> > 
> > 
> > "Barry, Christopher":
> > > maybe it's been done already. if so, pardon the noise and 
> > point me at
> > > it. 
> > > but what do you think of this idea:
> > > 
> > > a 7-layer cake backup system. You keep a weeks worth of versions on
> > > disk, and push 
> > > incrementals easily to tape daily using daily versioning filesystem
> > > layers.
> > 
> > Although I don't use it, some Japanese people like to use 
> > pdumpfs which
> > has similar feature you wrote.
> > http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs/index.html.en
> > 
> > Junjiro Okajima
> >
> 
> The difference I can see is that rsync will likely be much more
> efficient because it's just pulling the *differences* of files that have
> changed, and will not need to pull the entire file. glastree, pdumpfs
> and others pull the entire file, and create hardlinks to those that have
> not changed.
> 
> I'm going to go ahead and create this on a testbed, and I'll keep the
> list posted.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -C 
> 
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Well, it seems to work awesome when done manually. I'll whip something
up in bash to automate and let you know. VERY fast!

-C
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