From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 03:32:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C261065695 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:32:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25FA8FC0A for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:32:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id m984irm6000401 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id m984ireq000400 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:44:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200810080444.m984ireq000400@mail.cruzio.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:32:25 -0000 Hi, re Continuous Data Protection (an enterprise market niche, today), a recent paper that provides some background and has basic references might be: http://www.usenix.org/event/fast08/tech/verma.html "SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism", FAST '08, Akshat Verma, IBM India Research; Kaladhar Voruganti, Network Appliance; Ramani Routray, IBM Almaden Research; Rohit Jain, Yahoo India. -bruce