[LAU] System Restore...

[Russell Hanaghan]

You know, I didnt even give the Nettapp system a thought and you raise  
an interesting point! While I have supported and built the networks  
that Netapp machines reside in, I have not performed any admin on  
them... But I know some talent who has!! I also have some SE contacts  
at Intervision who can steer me away from the patent danger zone!

I sure as hell don't want my audio box spamming me day and night and  
ordering up new hard drives for itself on a whim!! :)

R

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On May 3, 2008, at 7:00 PM, "Lee Revell" <rlrevell at joe-job.com> 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...
>
> Lee