Les-
Putting the Mac vs (anything else) argument aside, as it detracts from the
discussion, I would like to add that even low end NAS devices like the
QNAP offer filesystem snapshots that are, for the purposes of a home office
or small business seamless. At $WORK, I've used NetApp, EMC Isilon, and
IBM's Storewise V7000 Unified storage, which all do a nice job of
snapshots, and we've never experienced issues with overhead during the
snapshot process. Point is, there are a lot of options out there,
including using modern file system features.
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Ray Frush
Colorado State University.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > @GW Haywood: this would be limited to executive people that usually know
> > what they're doing and are the only ones that are working on not-to-lose
> > docs ie: big spreadsheets - the idea is to entirely pull off any admin
> > from the restoration process, which isn't the case w/ snapshots.
>
> The quick fix here is to use a Mac with an external or network drive
> for time machine. If you aren't familiar with it, it does exactly
> what you suggested with easy access for the user and filesystem tricks
> for efficiency. For a more enterprise flavor, NetApp fileservers have
> done filesystem snapshots at configurable intervals into hidden but
> accessible directories for decades now with next to no overhead, again
> with filesystem tricks. (But their patents are probably what has kept
> everyone else from doing it well for so long...).
>
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