[Debian-uk] OT: What's required for a debian based small business server?

[Joel Merrick]

On 4/4/07, Simon Waters <simon@technocool.net> wrote:
> One thing W2003 has which is nice, is the snapshot style system (Shadow
> Copies).
>
> Classic Microsoft, nice feature, easy to use, but the administrator has
> to install extra software everywhere for it to work, and it is very
> badly implemented. You only have to look in the direction of the
> computer, and it deletes all the shadow copies.
>
> I've been meaning to write a Debian specific "How To" on implementing
> similar functionality with XFS without the drawbacks. It isn't hard, but
> I felt the need to make it "obvious".


That's very interesting.. Is this down to XATTRs on XFS itself or is
it some other implementation, just running on top of XFS (and
applicable to EXT3 or JFS/Reiser etc...)?