Hello, On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:52:47PM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:51:43PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > I do backups of sensitive information, but the reason I want a > > snapshotting filesystem for is automated decision when to do the > > backup. > > There is no automated decision, that was my whole point! > > The original idea for versioning filesystems was to automatically keep > track of individual changes, and it failed magnificently. The new > snapshotting filesystems OTOH can work, because they do *not* try to > automate it -- that's exactly what makes them different.
Hm, I didn't realize automated snapshotting was so bad. Though I can acknowledge that I cannot think of an acceptable way to decide when to do snapshots. > > OTOH, a snapshotting filesystem is not exactly about backups IMHO. > > Well, actually the snapshotting functionality is kind a side effect of > atomic updates, which comes almost for free. But it's generally seen as > a feature for easing backups. Clear, I'll correct my conceptions :-) Regards, scolobb
