Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

[Ingo Bormuth <ibormuth@efil.de>]

On 2005-10-25 02:28, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> >And what is the advantage? You are not protected against a lot of disk
> >failures (only against bad blocks, right?).
>
> It is only for very important files for computers which have only one
> hard drive.  Some of the work is with changing fsck.....
> 

I agree, real backups are the major weappon against classical data loss due 
to hardware failure. 
Other quite anoying and common causes for data loss are accidentally deleted, 
overwritten or modified files. A _simple_ versioning plugin would be very
nice to have (I'd definitly use it in /etc).

Anyway, oun could then easily add the proposed redundancy feature (implemented
as the files version number zero).




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