On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
more to the point: will it allow me to say 'give me the data.fs file as it was at 2000/01/05, 5am'[*] ? The code I've just about finished will do this, and it also only stores deltas between files (unless the md5 changes, or the file shrinks, in which case it writes a full file).
I also plan to support gzipping the data files in the repository. Once this is done, I'll be running it 12-hourly here to allow us some recovery to any cases of screwups.
A 'quick hack' method of doing this would be to ascii encode your data.fs (uuencode, base64 - anything as long as you have line feeds) and use RCS to handle all the deltas. Or you could buy a Netapp and use the built-in snapshot facilities :-) -- ___ // Zen (alias Stuart Bishop) Work: zen@cs.rmit.edu.au // E N Senior Systems Alchemist Play: zen@shangri-la.dropbear.id.au //__ Computer Science, RMIT WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zen