From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 13:23:09 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 3F39E16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net (mtaw6.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF02C43D4C for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (0c21b4467259724b3341f7addde0c282@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128]) by mtaw6.prodigy.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3FKLspT005981; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB0C852345; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Daniel O'Connor" Message-ID: <20040415202303.GA72458@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040414203743.E77439@zoraida.natserv.net> <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0F1p//8PRICkK4MW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 20:23:09 -0000 --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:53:09PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. >=20 > mksnap_ffs? :) > (Plus some helper stuff..) I once played around with a cron job that rotated a set of snapshots, but there were problems with deadlocking and I didnt have time to report the bugs properly to Kirk. This would be a great project for someone to work on (reporting the bugs in snapshots, that is ;). Kris --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfu8nWry0BWjoQKURAkXmAKCL+eJwOf38EeDXl0555OGi3fNmYQCffpQj YE2zU69O7AZITDT7rnlfpBg= =eb++ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--