Les Mikesell wrote: > Jon Forrest wrote: > >> One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how >> all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding >> this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to >> the commercial backup products. > > Don't those products all require a client side agent, at least for > cross-platform operation?
I think they require a client side agent for all operations. > I think it would theoretically be possible to > get a target directory listing with the transfer methods that backuppc > supports but it wouldn't be trivial. I've started looking at the source code for BackupPC. Too bad there aren't more comments. There's obviously logic to produce the directory tree listings using existing backups as the source. All that would be required to do what I have in mind is to have the BackupPC transfer method do a directory listing starting from the root directory and then somehow massage this into something the existing display logic can handle. This is just a simple matter of software, right? -- Jon Forrest Unix Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
