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Re: versioning file system

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:32:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> 
> I did Fortran programming on VAX/VMS machines back in the 1980's.  Its
> file versioning feature was a godsend [1][2].  I want that on my Debian
> machines.
> 
> 2018-10-25 17:28:29 dpchrist@vstretch ~
> $ apt-cache search versioning file system
> copyfs - Versioning filesystem for FUSE
> davfs2 - mount a WebDAV resource as a regular file system
> dvcs-autosync - Automatically synchronize distributed version control
> repositories
> fsvs - Full system versioning with metadata support
> fusedav - filesystem to mount WebDAV shares
> incron - cron-like daemon which handles filesystem events
> python-migrate - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - Python 2.7
> python-migrate-doc - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - doc
> python3-migrate - Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy - Python 3.x
> 
> 
> Has anybody tried copyfs, fsvs, or anything else with file versioning?

The problem with fsvs and copyfs and other FUSE-based things is
that they tend to be slow, so slow that you don't want to put
major chunks of your system in them.

On the other hand, it's usually easy to make whatever editor you
habitually use hook into a versioning system for every save:

emacs git-auto-commit-mode
vim  vim-auto-commit or fugitive
atom Git-Plus

and it turns out that Microsoft open-sourced Visual Studio Code
and it has git support built-in.

On the other hand, if you want a system that is fast and can
handle everything, not just what you are working on right now, 
you could

- install rsnapshot and have it do automatic periodic backups,
  like once an hour

- use ZFS and tell it automatically make snapshots, maybe even
  once an hour (syncoid/sanoid are your friends here).

-dsr-

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versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 02:40 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 04:50 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
  Re: versioning file system songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-26 05:10 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
      Re: versioning file system Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 06:50 +0100
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-29 08:00 +0100
    Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-26 16:00 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 23:30 +0200
      Re: versioning file system David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 00:30 +0200
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-27 02:30 +0200
  Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 22:10 +0200
    Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-26 23:50 +0200
      Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-28 15:50 +0100
        Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-29 04:00 +0100
          Re: versioning file system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-10-30 10:50 +0100
            Re: versioning file system Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-30 11:50 +0100
              Re: versioning file system David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-10-30 19:10 +0100

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