From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 05:23:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB0B16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7189E43D1F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3FCNAQ9062055; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:53:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:53:09 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040414203743.E77439@zoraida.natserv.net> <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: Shadow filesystems [was Re: Pair donates 20,000 to Poul-Henning Kamp??] X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:23:16 -0000 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