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[Derek Broughton]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:

> OK I am not a "complete newbie
> " to linux, been using it since caldera, then gentoo for a couple of years
> and now kubuntu, and freebsd on my servers, although I am thinking about
> switching my servers to kubuntu/ubuntu as well.
> Anyway, At one of my part-time jobs we have a couple of win2003 servers
> and the administrator can right click on a folder and then restore
> previous versions of the folders or files. As far as I know this is on teh
> individual servers and not being mirrored off.
> Is there a simple way to do this in linux? svn? a way to even do this on a
> desktop?
> Anyone else doing this? I realize it does not take the place of a complete
> backup but it would be handy sometimes, like whan I accidently corrupt my
> foxbase files on my samba share with vmware etc...
> 

Unison?  I don't use it, but it sounds like what my colleague does with
Unison, Windows and Ubuntu.
-- 
derek