On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only > important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is > also important that data can be restored if deleted by accidents etc. While > traditional backup programs provide this functionality, you cant really go > back to 10 min or 1h ago, often they take daily backups and have to scan > whole filesystem for changed files every time the backup is taken which > stresses out the systems. >
This can (more or less) be achieved with snapshots: you can cheaply maintain old versions of the file system, and mount an old snapshot at any time. Hourly is about as fine-grained as you can expect though. -- Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
