[Cialug] Restoring deleted files

[kristau]

Sounds like you need something similar to Apple's Time Machine. If you can
use zfs as your target storage for backups, then zfsbackup (
https://github.com/akorn/zfsbackup) should fit the bill.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 2:38 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Encounting a situation where a user wants to restore a project file
> [originally saved on a server that is backed up daily and retained for a
> year] from 15 months ago (i.e. before the oldest backup).
>
> Trying to come up with a simple and transparent way to restore a file, and
> it occurred to me that if we did a git commit of their main filestore
> (which is all project based), we could easily keep backups permanently,
> with no maintenance except for managing storage.
>
> Might be better if we could discriminate automatically to the project
> level (e.g. six subfolders deep)??
>
>         TIA!
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