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How is 'thawing' your files more/less of a hassle than mounting a drive?
by VectorLock 9y ago
How is 'thawing' your files more/less of a hassle than mounting a drive?
- masklinn 9y agoThe file would still be there and available, even more so as it would be "frozen readonly", you just get a request on write access. Whereas with drives you don't have access to the file if it's not mounted, you have to know on which drive the file you're looking for is, go through the mounting process, then actually find the file. And if you want to alter the file you have to remount the entire thing, and possibly need to track down that one daemon which still has a handle open and prevents you from unmounting it.
- KekDemaga 9y agoAn idea I have is implement simple versioning on the thaw folder. If edited the changes can then be reverted.
- elmigranto 9y agoAnd I have counter idea — encrypt N times, so every shadow copy is borked; certainly you are not storing "infinite" history?
- KekDemaga 9y agoI presume the thaw folder would have an upper limit on storage, once hit you forbid writes entirely.
- masklinn 9y agoIsn't that just a CoW filesystem? Just use e.g. ZFS and configure it to take regular snapshots (though you may want to be careful, a few years back if a zpool got completely full things got wonky, dunno if they've fixed it, so you may want to keep some disk space outside the zpool just in case, so you can expand the zpool enough to work if it gets completely full)
- rainbowzootsuit 9y agoOpenSolaris derivatives (eg OmniOS, SmartOS) are able to present the snapshots over SMB as windows previous versions. I have the server at work, which only has windows desktop clients, making 1-minute snapshots with a one-day lifetime in addition to daily, weekly, monthly etc. It's very handy for the occasions where you accidentally save over a document and slap yourself in the head immediately afterwards.