[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Ken Hansen]

That is just a delayed delete, right?

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Tape drive


> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:45:43PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > They simply DO NOT BREAK.  
> 
> Oh, the other thing - built-in filesystem snapshots.
> 
> Say you've got something in a NetApp-mounted directory, that you 
> accidentally deleted:
> 
> On a netapp:
> 
> # rm passwd
> # ls passwd
> passwd: No such file or directory
> 
> "oops"
> "oh shit"
> 
> # cd .snapshot
> # cp passwd ../
> # cd ..
> # ls -al passwd
> -r--r--r--   1 root     sys         2398 May  9 13:51 passwd
> # 
> 
> "yay"
> 
> You can have it snapshot the filesystem once an hour, once a day,
> etc... and you can have multiple snapshots, as well, if you need
> to get an older version of a file..
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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