Hello, A co-worker and I were talking about various ways to do 'backups' to try and prevent data loss. The topic came around to a file system we had used at a previous job. I can't remember the specifics, but we believe it was a Network Appliance system.
One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e. ~/foo.txt hourly.0/~/foo.txt So, if you accidentally deleted your home directory copy, you could still recover it for a short time. Once it made it past X hours, the file would start getting removed from the hourly.n directories. We were never admins on the box nor do we have experience with it, so the hard link is just a theory... A quick google search on automatic hard linking didn't turn anything up. Is there a package anyone knows of that registers for file system events and will create temporary hard links in another location for 'accident prevention'. This isn't a backup strategy (obviously) just a method for easily recovering files when that "Oops" happens... Thanks for the help. - Todd _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
