[Box Backup-dev] Point in time restores?

[James O'Gorman]

Hi Chris,

On 8 Jun 2009, at 19:03, Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Ah, right. Gotcha.

> 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.

It'd be a really nice thing to have, but I understand it's a big job.  
I'm struggling to keep up with stuff outside work too...

Looks like I'll have to get around my Thunderbird-fail the hard way  
then... it deleted all mail over 90 days old :(

James