On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:34 -0400, Barry, Christopher wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > unionfs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
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 _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
