[LAU] System Restore...

cdr _ at whats-your.name
Sat May 3 23:40:00 EDT 2008


On Sat May 03, 2008 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:
> >  I have spent many hours recently setting up a custom audio distro that will
> >  be remastered and available as a live CD. I'm no Linux sys admin...I figure
> >  stuff out any way I can, take longer than most to get it just how I like
> >  it....and then I say..hmm, just one more thing I'd like to change....and I
> >  bjork the window manager or some such thing. To re-install at that point
> >  kills MANY hours of fruitfull work and I'm old enough that I don't need
> >  cliche lessons! :)
> >
> >  Thoughts?   Oh, please choose smooth edged stones under 16oz in weight!
> 
> Netapp implemented this perfectly with the snapshots feature of their
> WAFL filesystem.  In every directory there is a .snapshots
> subdirectory containing monthly, weekly, and hourly snapshots of the
> parent directory.  If you hose your system recovery is as simple as
> "cp -pr .snapshots/hourly.1/* .".
> 
> Unfortunately it's patented so Linux can't do the same...

btrfs is GPL

i havent seen them cower in fear of such a ridiculous 'patent'


> 
> Lee
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