continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

[Shaun Amott]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:31:58AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> 
> so FreeBSD could be supported also. As you can imagine, it is not only 
> important that data can be restored when a box hardware failure etc. it is 
> also important that data can be restored if deleted by accidents etc. While 
> traditional backup programs provide this functionality, you cant really go 
> back to 10 min or 1h ago, often they take daily backups and have to scan 
> whole filesystem for changed files every time the backup is taken which 
> stresses out the systems.
> 

This can (more or less) be achieved with snapshots: you can cheaply
maintain old versions of the file system, and mount an old snapshot at
any time. Hourly is about as fine-grained as you can expect though.

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