Norton Go Home (Revisited)

[Curt Sampson]

In article <21441 at lanl.gov>
  jlg at cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

> I think that the point is that the Norton utilities don't rely on
> keeping deleted files in some "shadow" space.  Norton can sometimes
> fail to recover a file because its disk sectors have been reused.
> But, this is better than forcing the user to periodically have to
> empty his "wastebasket" of preserved trash and forcing the user to
> deal with diminishing disk space until he does.  At least, this is
> the perceived advantage - like it or not, that's what people want.

There are better ways to do this.  If you use the old "move to a
shadow space" trick, you can have a cron entry that will clean the
shadow space every night right after the backup.  You can instantly
recover any files deleted that day, and you just have to go to the
tapes to recover files deleted earlier.  You never use more disk space
than the files deleted that day and you have the ability to recover as
far back as your backup scheme goes.

cjs
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