--On Monday, May 10, 2021 5:25 PM -0400 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Even if you were content with seeing a standalone heat map for one backup (as unhelpful as it may be), creating it would be quite slow since you would need to access, unpack/uncompress, and read each attrib file to calculate the file sizes.
Indeed. If you've used the treemap utilities, you know you leave them running in the background for an hour or more and then view the result. kdirmap has the feature that you can load a previously-saved map. Hence, I'd think such a plugin would run in the background or load a kdirmap file. Hmm, perhaps this might be better as a standalone web page rather than a BackupPC plugin.
Presentation would be interesting. Most useful would be a treemap of the pool, with tooltips showing what each file was known as on clients, and how many clients shared it. One could optionally weight a file's size by how many clients shared it.
(Is there a way to add links to external facilities in BackupPC? I currently have a separate page with the link to the cygwin rsyncd package to use when setting up a new PC.)
Of course, if you "welcome" such a plugin, you are more than "welcome" to write one as this is an open source project... I just don't see it happening by itself as the dev team is small (mostly Craig) and focused on core stability and functionality.
Oh, I'm quite aware it would be SMOP, hence the suggestion that it be a 3rd party plugin. ;) But if someone's looking for a school project that might be a nice one to share.
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