[Box Backup-dev] Point in time restores?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi James,

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, James O'Gorman wrote:

> How feasible would it be to implement a point in time restore feature? 
> e.g. I have a group of files or directories which have been 
> deleted/modified, but I want to restore the data as it was backed up on 
> a certain date.
>
> This is a feature I use quite a lot with TSM at work and can be quite 
> handy, but I'm not sure if Box Backup stores enough information to be 
> able to do this?
>
> I'm aware we can restore "old" objects, but this is only one at a time, 
> I think...

I'm afraid it doesn't store enough information to do it accurately. In 
particular, the deletion date of files is never stored, and if a file is 
missing from the store, or only newer versions are available, it's not 
possible to know whether it did exist at that point in time (and was later 
removed by housekeeping) or not.

I've started work on implementation of snapshots, but it's a really big 
and tricky job and I'm really busy at the moment so it won't be ready in a 
hurry.

Cheers, Chris.
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