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Consumer advice. This isn't what the HalfBakery is for. |
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Consumer advice requests are usually tolerated, though. |
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[neilp], you might look into Starbase StarTeam for source, version control, bug reporting and config. mgmt. (or whatever subset you need). Supports rollback, diff and has a complete audit trail. Designed for collaborative work. |
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hey [bris] thanks for that. That's definitely the sort of thing, (we're using Visual Source Safe at the moment), it's just the process is v. clunky and I was hoping for something which is transparent to the users (a bit more backup-y). |
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weren't there some file systems that have versioning built in? |
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Remember Stacker, the disk compression utility? They had to find another business to be in when Microsoft (quite rightly) incorporated this functionality directly into the file system. |
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One of the prototypes they built as a possible future product was almost EXACTLY what you describe. It was a file system driver for Windows 95 that watched when you saved files, and transparently kept version histories on them without you doing anything. (And of course it used the patented Stac compression algorithm to minimize the extra space it took to store all this extra data). |
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Apparently either (a) they determined there was no market for this or (b) they couldn't work the kinks out of their implementation, because despite having shown it at a few trade shows, they never brought it to market. |
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As theircompetitor mentions, there were many old-school "mainframe" operating systems like DEC's VMS had this feature built in. When you accessed a file, you could optionally include a version number with the file name. See link. |
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Versions were automatic. You had to purge or set version limits (which automatically purged) to avoid them. Auditing file system access was possible, but not normally done as it created massive audit files. I miss VMS. Not that it isnt still around, I just dont work with it anymore. |
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