Re: Best file system for Disk quotas and undelete

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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:45:10 +0530
To: Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx>

Thankyou so much Lee for your detailed reply.
I appreciate them very much :-)

On 5/6/05, Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Siju George wrote:

>
> Undeleting files shouldn't be part of a "strategy". At best, it's a last
> resort. If it actually works, it's a *lucky* last resort. A combination of
> backing up your important files (always a good idea), setting rm to be
> interactive, and/or using the recycle bin/trashcan on your desktop instead of
> a permanent deletion would be a much better way to go.
>

actually I don't run a GUI on this machine because it is a server that
hosts some PHP website development.

> Faubackup is pretty easy, if you want a *very* low maintenance backup
> solution. Basically, you just edit it's config file for how many snapshots
> you want to keep as backups (the last week, or the last three weeks, or every
> month in the last year, etc.), and then edit the cron script for which
> directories to backup. You'll then get a backup directory that keeps files
> from those times. If you delete a file, just go to the backup directory, and
> retrieve yesterday's copy.
>

Thanks a lot Lee for introducing Faubackup. I am going to try it. I
heard of another software called Bacula. How do you compare both??
which is better??

> Most of all though: be careful! :D
>

yes :-)

> > ext2? ext3? ReiserFS? JFS?
>
> Personally, I prefer XFS. ReiserFS is a good choice too, but I still have
> stability concerns regarding Reiser.
>

Presently I am using Ext3 is XFS better than Ext3??
Will I be able to get the option to install XFS while installing from
the Woody 3.0r5 CD?
Or should I do something else to get XFS???

Thanks a lot once again for your reply :-)

kind regards

Siju

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