Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:00:08PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Ariel Biener wrote: > > > Try rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org) > > To the best of my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, none of the > > common filesystems (including ext2) support snapshots. > > > > So what did I miss? > > Nothing, you were correct in what you said. > rsnapshot does not do real snapshots. It's just a very comfortable > frontend to rsync. > > If you need real snapshots in linux you can use lvm. Not as convenient
Thank you Didi (and Ami too!). Actually, I was aware of LVM, but I enjoyed reading your responses, and even learned some things (such as about the effort to better integrate LVM with the common filesystems). And in any case, I guess that RAID1 is an option too (at least theoretically...). -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
