Shadow filesystems [was Re: Pair donates 20,000 to Poul-Henning Kamp??]

[Daniel O'Connor]

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..)

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