On Friday 31 August 2001 10:53, D. R. Evans wrote: > On 30 Aug 01, at 22:31, Mitch Thompson wrote: > > Well, I've shot myself in the foot with CUPS, again. I had it working, > > then I "upgraded" to 1.1.10, and now it doesn't even print if I downgrade > > back to 1.1.9. > > This sort of thing always makes me long for a program that does the > same thing under Linux as GoBack does under Windows. (I.e., it allows > you to restore the entire state of the disk back to the way it was > sometime earlier, recover deleted/changed files, etc.) > > When I first heard the term "disk journaling" I thought, "Yay! GoBack > at last", but it turns out that the term doesn't seem to mean what I > thought it did. > > Every few months I go looking to see if there's a GoBack-like program > available for Linux yet (whether GPL or $-ware), but I've never come > across so much as a hint of one. > > It seems odd (to me) that a system for which the sources are available > does not have a program like this. Does anyone know of any > person/group/company who is working on one? Or is there some completely > fundamental reason why such a program could not possibly be written for > Linux (seems unlikely, given that the kernel could be patched if > necessary, but one never knows). > > And I apologise if people perceive this to be somewhat off-topic. If > you think that, just don't respond and the thread will last for exactly > this one posting :-) > > Doc Evans > > Actually it is too simple with existing tools for most developers to think of it. You see, if you set up your configuration files as a CVS repository and run CVS client and server on your machine and checkout daily, even through a cron job, you have a history that provides _multiple_ gobacks. Or a cron job that tar's certain config files daily for a week back and monthly for a year back could be set up and a script to recover could be tied to a desktop icon. As for honest data files, well that's what backups arew for :-) Civileme > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone: +1 303 494 0394 > Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 > Fax: +1 781 240 0527 > --------------------------------------------------------------
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