[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Bruce Campbell <bc at humbug.org.au> writes:

> An additional (handy) thing that you can do with the better journalled
> filesystems is to have the ability of 'snapshots', or 'this is what the
> filesystem looked like at previous point in time and this is the contents
> of the files at that point in time'.  _Not_ an alternative to backups,

Also incredibly useful when you're trying to back up a busy filesystem
while it's still active, *if* you have the storage to keep the changes
and/or snapshot around long enough for the backup to be successful and
keep the `real' filesystem useful for users, no?

I was thinking of using this sort of functionality to assist creating
backup images for tape.

jason
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