Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:23:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shadow filesystems [was Re: Pair donates 20,000 to Poul-Henning Kamp??] Message-ID: <20040415202303.GA72458@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20040414203743.E77439@zoraida.natserv.net> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0404142203480.71483@olmec> <20040415070104.GB40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200404152153.09146.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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--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--
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