Pieter Wuille wrote at about 17:57:06 +0200 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009: > Hello, > > because of a need to restore files from backuppc in a more flexible way than > through the web-interface (a particular directory in a whole bunch of hosts > at the same time) and some googling, i stumbled upon Stephen Day's fuse > system > for backuppc. > > It had a few shortcomings, such as not supporting share-names with "/" > characters, and being very slow, so i started rewriting parts and adding > some features. > > If anyone's interested at trying/looking at it: > https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl > > Some features: > - caches the directory structure to improve efficiency > - supports chardevs and blockdevs (and files/dirs/symlinks) > - correct linkcounts for directories > - merges all shares of a host into one directory tree structure, > supporting '/' and '\' as separators in sharenames > - open()ed filehandles are kept and reused to prevent seeking for each and > every read operation - even supports efficient (sequential) reading when > files are opened more than once at the same time. > - incremental backups are shown correctly > - some command-line options > > It is only tested on one 3.1 backuppc pool on a Ubuntu 8.04 system, and not > very extensively. It only opens files/directories in read-only mode, thus > shouldn't be able to damage a working backuppc pool if something goes wrong. > > I'd like to get some feedback; ideas, bugreports, ... are very welcome.
Sounds great!!! I look forward to playing with it when I get a chance. By the way, if you are ever interested in implementing 'write' functionality, you might be able to repurpose the code that I wrote for BackupPC_deleteFile that allows you to delete files and directories (properly) from any full or incremental backup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ 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/