[BozemanLUG] Back In Time

[David Boreham]

Jeff Sharkey wrote:
> Speaking of this, I've been meaning to figure out how some NAS filers
> I've used keep ".snapshot" directories.  It would be awesome if this
> was just a flag you could enable, but I'm not sure if it requires
> filesystem support.
>
> cookie:~> ls .snapshot
> hourly.0  hourly.1  nightly.0  nightly.1  weekly.0  weekly.1
>
> Anyone set this up before?  It's a lifesaver if your NAS provides it.  :)
>   
It's a NetApp feature and requires fiendish file system support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Anywhere_File_Layout

AFAIK there is no OSS versioning FS, at least not that I'd trust my data 
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