Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:53:09 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shadow filesystems [was Re: Pair donates 20,000 to Poul-Henning Kamp??] Message-ID: <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040414203743.E77439@zoraida.natserv.net> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0404142203480.71483@olmec> <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:31, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:43:47PM -0400, Darren Henderson wrote: > > They have some "shadow drive" functionality that I would love to see > > folded back into FreeBSD. > > Hmmm... that's a coincidence. Is this the same sort of thing as the > 'Shadow Drive' function under Windows 2003? That is, a system that > keeps backup copies of files etc. over time, so if you happen to > accidentally delete something you shouldn't have, you can resurrect it > without having to go running to your Sys-admin to beg them to get it > back from the backup tapes. Sounds conceptually like a slightly more > elaborate version the old VMS file versioning thing, or the GNU > numbered backup trick you can do with emacs etc. mksnap_ffs? :) (Plus some helper stuff..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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