Hi Calum, heh, as it happens, I was tinkering with pygtk to see how difficult this would be :)
Supposing I have a ZFS on my machine called root/export/home which is mounted on /export/home. Then I have my home dir as /export/home/chris. Say I only want to snapshot and backup /export/home/chris/Documents. I can't create a snapshot of /export/home/chris/Documents as it is a directory, I have to create a snapshot of the parent ZFS, in this case /export/home/. So there isn't really the granularity that the attached spec implies. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I just tried it and it didn't work. I've had a bit of a look at 'Time Machine' and I'd be more in favour of that style of backup. Just back up everything so I don't have to think about it. My feeling is that picking individual directories out just causes confusion. Think of it this way: how much change is there on a daily basis on your desktop/laptop? Those snapshots aren't going to grow very quickly. -Christian Calum Benson wrote: > Hi all, > > We've been thinking a little about a more integrated desktop presence > for Tim Foster's ZFS backup and snapshot services[1]. Here are some > initial ideas about what a Phase 0 (snapshot only, not backup) user > experience might look like... comments welcome. > > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Snapshot > > (I'm not subscribed to zfs-discuss, so please make sure either > desktop-discuss or I remain cc'ed on any replies if you want me to > see them...) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > [1] http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_for_the_people > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
