[Discuss] When you omit rsync '--update' option

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/03/2012 02:16 AM, Rich Braun wrote:
> In the olden days we had really good versioning filesystems that provided
> assurance that unless you were running 99% full all the time, you could revert
> to an earlier copy of a file.  The Linux 'ext4' filesystem doesn't seem to
> have versioning, but maybe it's got some hidden recovery methods that I don't
> know about.  My file is small, about 15 megs, but represents a lot of manual
> effort that I dread repeating.
OpenVMS is still being sold by HP.

IMHO, Unix and Linux never had a versioning file system as a default.
AFAIK, there were some commercial Unixes that did offer a versioning
file system.

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