4 May
2008
4 May
'08
3:37 a.m.
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(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Russell Hanaghan
<hanaghan(a)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