Les Mikesell wrote at about 22:34:04 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009: > Steve wrote: > > I am not a programmer, just a dumb user that thinks the whole thing is > > kinda magic. So perhaps this is a stupid question. But since > > BackupPc somehow knows where all the files are and what is linked to > > what etc. why can't there be a button in the CGI interface that > > instead of "restore", says something like, "as of the last inc or > > whatever, make a perfect copy of what i want over here" and just let > > that replicate the pc directories and pool and everything over to the > > backup, offsite, or external drive? > > The problem is that there is no good mechanism to find the "other" names > that are hardlinked together. Normally you don't need to know - > except when you are trying to copy the whole thing maintaining > consistency. The not-so-good way to do it is to build a table of names > and inode numbers for the whole tree and link the names with matching > inodes as they are copied. As you may have noticed, this doesn't scale > very well.
This is why I like the idea of prepending/appending the pool file hash name to the pool file. Then it does scale well since you don't need to create and search a long table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
