Has anyone implemented a "generic" Xfer method for BackupPC? If not, would anyone consider doing so?
Basically I want a method capable of running any user-specified command (like dump, for example, but not limited to that) and storing the raw output in a single backup file/archive--keyed on date or some other user-specified attribute. Of course, the method also has to be able to dump that raw file back to the client using a user-specified command (ufsrestore, for instance). I have considered using the pre and post dump commands to do this: generating a file and then using the tar Xfer method to backup that file, and that should be possible. But to me it just seems a lot less clean (and requires a lot more overhead) to - create archive - backup archive using backuppc - delete archive than it does to create archive and stream to backuppc. Especially if the volume of data being backed up runs into the multi-gigabyte range and considering that these files, as the raw output of a user command, are probably never going to duplicate. Am I way off base here? Cheers, Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
