Google Developing "DM-BOW" For Using Drive's Free Space For Data Snapshots

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Developing "DM-BOW" For Using Drive's Free Space For Data Snapshots

Google engineers are developing the DM-BOW device mapper driver with plans to use the code on Android devices to provide a restoration path should a system upgrade fail...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DM-BOW-Prototype-Backups

[bachchain]

Or, y'know, use a filesystem that does snapshots

[R41N3R]

Seems quite complicated...

[Britoid]

How about actually update Android to handle updates properly rather than doing work-arounds.

[duby229]

Phoronix: Google Developing "DM-BOW" For Using Drive's Free Space For Data Snapshots

Google engineers are developing the DM-BOW device mapper driver with plans to use the code on Android devices to provide a restoration path should a system upgrade fail...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...totype-Backups

Now this is cool. I use a Gentoo system, but I don't upgrade the way other people do. I have the gentoo installation fully scripted to make a filesystem image. So an upgrade to me is just booting to a newer image and dealing with userspace configuration differences. And this will be nice for my needs.

[geearf]

When you wrote Drive in the title, I thought you meant Google Drive, especially since we don't talk much about drives for androids but sdcards usually.

[cybertraveler]

So Google are working on software that makes it so data deleted by the user isn't really deleted and can easily be accessed/restored at a later time...

Nothing to see here folks... move along...

[Brophen]

When you wrote Drive in the title, I thought you meant Google Drive, especially since we don't talk much about drives for androids but sdcards usually.

I hoped, especially with Google working to pass Google Drive access to their Crostini Linux VMs in ChromeOS

[Vistaus]

So Google are working on software that makes it so data deleted by the user isn't really deleted and can easily be accessed/restored at a later time...

Nothing to see here folks... move along...

It's not that innovative anyway, 'cause when I delete an e-mail on Outlook dot com and empty the trash, I can still restore it for some time. So MS has this feature working in the cloud already and on desktop, we have similar things with ZFS and btrfs.

[cybertraveler]

It's not that innovative anyway, 'cause when I delete an e-mail on Outlook dot com and empty the trash, I can still restore it for some time. So MS has this feature working in the cloud already and on desktop, we have similar things with ZFS and btrfs.

I know. It still really stood out to me though because... you know... it's Google.