A recent message on the list about rsyncing vmware images to a file
server reminded me of a different issue.
With a Network Appliance file server, you can make time stamps of your
file system and recover files that were deleted.
It seems like it would be possible to do this kind of thing with rsync.
Then cvs came to mind. But with cvs I don't believe you could check in a
binary file and just have it check in the diffs.
Has someone made a process where you could use rsync to journal the file
system? I could set up a mirror of the file system, but then I would
want rsync type diffs after that. I could run the process nightly to
store the diffs. Then, I'd like to "check out" (or build by rsync) a
file or directory from yesterday, last week, or last month. What do you
think would be involved in setting something like this up? (besides a
monster array to store all the data and diffs.) Does anyone have
thoughts on how you could make such a thing? Or perhaps it's already in
production somewhere...
Thanks,
Jeff
