You know, I didnt even give the Nettapp system a thought and you raise an interesting point! While I have supported and built the networks that Netapp machines reside in, I have not performed any admin on them... But I know some talent who has!! I also have some SE contacts at Intervision who can steer me away from the patent danger zone! I sure as hell don't want my audio box spamming me day and night and ordering up new hard drives for itself on a whim!! :) R Sent from iPhone On May 3, 2008, at 7:00 PM, "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: >> I have spent many hours recently setting up a custom audio distro >> that will >> be remastered and available as a live CD. I'm no Linux sys >> admin...I figure >> stuff out any way I can, take longer than most to get it just how I >> like >> it....and then I say..hmm, just one more thing I'd like to >> change....and I >> bjork the window manager or some such thing. To re-install at that >> point >> kills MANY hours of fruitfull work and I'm old enough that I don't >> need >> cliche lessons! :) >> >> Thoughts? Oh, please choose smooth edged stones under 16oz in >> weight! > > Netapp implemented this perfectly with the snapshots feature of their > WAFL filesystem. In every directory there is a .snapshots > subdirectory containing monthly, weekly, and hourly snapshots of the > parent directory. If you hose your system recovery is as simple as > "cp -pr .snapshots/hourly.1/* .". > > Unfortunately it's patented so Linux can't do the same... > > Lee _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
