| From: | Jonathan Potter |
| Date: | 26 Jul 2001 at 00:57:26 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: pec., per. problem |
At 19:29 25/07/01 +0100, Alexander Niven-Jenkins said:
> > Speaking of BOOT2: (which is, again, not up to date): is there a mirror
> > program that could duplicate every file action (create, delete, rename,
> > etc.) onto a backup device? Some type of program that would examine
> > actions (a handler, maybe) and then perform these actions on a
> > user-selected device? That would really simplify the backup situation in
> > that a backup would be maintained continually. I've looked through Aminet,
> > but maybe I've not recognized THE ONE.
>
> Probably not, although that's a pretty good idea :-) You would have to
>patch into the system libraries and watch for writes.
> It probably isn't too difficult; however you'd want to buffer it somehow
>so that you didn't get trashing betwee trying to write to two destinations
>at the same time.
>
> And of course everything would slow down :-)
If you were talking about a PC I'd just say go out and buy a RAID
controller, but I don't know whether you'd get one to run on an Amiga...
Cheers,
Jon
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