UML was Re: [plug] Cooking :)

[Brad Campbell]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:11:17PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> | Plus by copying and gzipping my uml image before I upgrade I have an 
> | easy checkpoint to roll back to if something does break.
> 
> May I suggest that you look into using COW files for this purpose?  That
> way you can get away with just keeping the changes between checkpoints,
> which should save a good deal of space.
> 
> Cameron.

Except that I run with the new version and then blitz the backup when it 
has passed my reliability acceptance testing, so doing it this way uses 
more space for a couple of days but then it gets deleted anyway.
If I get what I think is a milestone point, I just copy it onto a CD.

I had thought about COW but it's not the easy way to do what I want to, 
and with a 60GB drive on my laptop I'm hardly pushed for space :p)

I will check out COW though for a multiple virtual server concept I 
have. Thanks for the idea.

Brad
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