Hello Aaron Thanks a lot for your quick reply. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aa...@heyaaron.com>wrote:
> In Windows, the ability to snapshot is built into the filesystem. > In Linux, you must be running a filesystem that supports snapshots. I > know LVM supports snapshotting and I believe BRTFS has support, but > other than that I'm not sure. > > Yes I read the logic behind windows system restore. But I think we can take some other approach for this, that will be better as all users won't be able to spare an extra partition formatted brtfs. > Basically, your program would have to check the file system that is > used on the computer (remember Linux can have many types of file > systems mounted at the same time), then (in the case of LVM) make sure > there's enough free space to snapshot, and finally take the snapshot. > > Ok. Do I have to snapshot the whole system partition / important system files to the brtfs partition ? > When the snapshots start filling up, you would either need to delete > them or detect the low space and resize them. > > In my personal opinion, snapshotting in Linux is currently a pain in > the rear. It sounds like BTRFS could change that, but it's still a > ways off. > > Ok. I will try another approach that will be better as suggested by people here. > -A > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 21:00, Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > I want to write a windows system restore like program for ubuntu , which > > will have options for creating restore points for the system and then > > restoring it back to that point. Also I will as an extension provide > support > > for older version of a file as is in windows currently. I need your help > to > > find how to start with this in ubuntu. I know that I have to snapshot the > > system when creating a restore point and then restore it. I need some > > starting pointers so that I can start doing this work. Also if this has > > already been done please inform me. I got this idea from > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemRestore. > > -- > > Thanks and Regards , > > Gaurav > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > > > > -- Thanks and Regards , Gaurav -- Thanks and Regards , Gaurav
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