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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 18:59:05 -0700 From: coderman <coderman@...il.com> To: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com> wrote: > ... > They also don't solve the problem of restoring a fragment of data (e.g, a single accidentally deleted file) from a backup... if you meant using your backup software for specific restoration, there is no reason you can't do this on the live file system using the backup software as expected. my intent was to encourage use of making / updating the backups on a read-only snapshot of the file system, rather than live. using logical volumes alone are not sufficient for advanced file specific backups/restore or de-dupe or other features traditionally provided by managed backup software. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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