[Box Backup] Restoring old directory tree?

[Pablo Fernandez]

Hi

Point in time recovery would be very useful. Are there plans of
supporting it?

Best regards,
Pablo


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:57 -0700, Imran Niazi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I remember talking about similiar or same issue, where you want the state of a
> system at a certain point in time.  I'm not sure what came of that, or if its
> planned.  
> 
> One way to implement this is, each record should have two dates associated to
> it, a 'start' date and a 'end' date.  start date is when box backup saw the
> file in its current state.  end date would be when the file disappeared or
> changed.  In a case of a file deletion that would be it.  But if a file
> changed, you have a new file record of the same name (i guess thats how its
> done now), and you would then have a start & end date.  Start date would be
> the same as the end date of the previous revision of that file etc.
> 
> I guess this is obvious and you might have already been implemented in a newer
> version.  
> 
> -Imran
> 
> > An edge case is:
> > 
> >   * Delete a file
> > 
> >   * Wait a few weeks
> > 
> >   * Delete the directory
> > 
> >   * Restore the deleted directory
> > 
> > Now in this case, unless housekeeping got to it, you would also  
> > restore the file you deleted weeks ago, because there's no 
> > distinction  between "deleted file" and "deleted file as part of a 
> > general  directory tree deletion."
> 
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