Life Preserver

[predragp at andrew.cmu.edu]

Dear Autonians,


Most of you by now know that we are using the most advanced file system in
existence ZFS on our file servers GAIA and Neill-ZFS. Some of you might
have bothered to Google about ZFS and might have noticed that ZFS supports
journaling of course via periodic snapshots. It is my pleasure to announce
that this feature is now fully production ready and turned on. Periodic
snapshots of your home directories are taken every day between hours 8:00
AM and 11:00 PM on every hour and kept for two weeks. Periodic snapshots
of project, data, and neill-fs ZFS data sets are taken Monday through
Friday between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM and kept for four weeks.


To put in layman's terms what I am telling you is that if you accidentally
delete file/directory or want to reverse changes in a file which is
located on a file server (/zfsauton or /zfsneill folders) don't despair.
In all likelihood I have your file in ZFS journal (snapshot) and all you
need to do is e-mail me. I will be happy to recover your file for you.


Most Kind Regards,
Predrag Punosevac


P.S. It would be quite possible to me to provide Life Preserver for your
personal laptops but the orders have to come from my bosses.