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

[gordon.w.ross at gmail.com (Gordon Ross)]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/2012 9:20 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
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>> Well, there's ZFS, which offers snapshots (pretty much like versions).
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> Not even close.
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> VMS and RT-11 file versioning is simple: every time you save a new copy of a
> file the old version gets an incrementing number. ?So you'll see FOO.TXT,
> FOO.TXT;1, FOO.TXT;2, FOO.TXT;3 and so forth when you do a directory
> listing. ?ZFS snapshots aren't at all like this.

No, but combined with an auto-snapshot service, I'd call it "close".
You would not get a new version on every file change, but one can
make snapshots pretty frequently, i.e. every few minutes.
Anyway, probably getting off topic here.  Sorry.