On 12/30 11:39 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 10:11:37 -0600 on Tuesday, December > 30, 2008: > > On 12/29 08:54 , Jon Craig wrote: > > > The POC work I did on a FUSE interface for BackupPC never got to a > > > point that was useful / releasable. What I quickly identified was > > > that there were two approaches to doing a FUSE interface. The first > > > was an interface that provided a fileystem layout over top of BackupPC > > > (which is what I did) to provide fileystem type access to the backup > > > catalog via BackupPC API. > > > > Could you explain what this offers over the existing setup? It seems pretty > > simple to me, to go to > > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>/<backupnumber>/fpath/fto/ffile. > > > > Tho obviously there's some room for improvement. :) > > > > - Automatic uncompression of compressed files? > > - Correct ownership/permissons of files? > > - More 'normal' paths to the files (i.e. no 'f' at the beginning of the > > words)? > > - Dates as well as backup numbers? > > > > Well Fuse would do all the above (which would be VERY helpful for > browsing backups) PLUS fill in the missing files for > incrementals. Also you would have the ability to literally just mount > a backup and get a snapshot of the backed-up filesystem.
That makes sense. Is your code in a usable state? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/