From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <460B9D16.5070503@enerla.net> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:03:50 +0200 From: bituman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] fossil+venti backup question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 35b2673a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 From time to time i get back to plan9 and starting fiddling with it, now i might found a reason to make it useful where i work.. If i understand correctly, venti uses fossil as a write buffer for today's modifications, and if i want to access data in previous week's state, then files are served by venti. Or (as i read in plan 9 intro pdf): "In some cases, a single file server may provide more than one file tree. For example, the file system program used in Plan 9, fossil, makes a snapshot of the entire file tree each day, at 5am, and archives it for the posterity. It archives only the changes with respect to the last archive, but provides the illusion that the whole tree was archived as it was that day." What id like to know is: can i simply use fossil or do i need fossil+venti? can backup period (currently daily) be set to stg. else? Like every two hours?