Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right | From | Brian Beattie <> | Date | 02 Nov 2003 08:11:32 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 08:59, Herman wrote:
> BTW, to my mind, the killer app in a business environment is the automatic > file versioning feature in longhorn. This protects people against fat finger > mistakes, and geez, any business has its fair share of fat head, fat finger > and dumb blond types. This is the only feature from VMS that I am longing > for... >
I have had this idea, for a while, that with the continued fall in price per bit of storage, and the fact, that back-up strategies are not catching up and are perhaps falling behind, that maybe a new paradyne for storage might be feasible soon. The idea is that you have a permanent store, using raid or raid-like redundancy and file versioning so that nothing is ever deleted, you just keep adding drives and replacing those that fail. Of course you'd need some geographic diversity and a way for storage to migrate to newer "file stores" to really work, but just think, no more backups to fail...ever!
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