Hi all, I am proposing a couple of Projects to add to the list.
Item 41: Add option to backup sub-files, for Differential and Incremental backups Date: 12 March 2010 Origin: Howard Thomson <[email protected]> Status: Initial concept What: Enable Bacula to incrementally backup modified parts of seriously large files. Why: For users and companies using virtualisation, large parts of the disk image files are static and unchanged between incremental backups, but currently any change requires the entire multi-gigabyte file to be backed up for any change. This could also be relevant for large database files with static content between backups. Notes: Requires on-media additional information to identify the span[s] of the file being stored. Requires a database change to store selected hash values for spans of selected files. Item 42: Provide a GUI configuration file builder and editor program, with consistency checking. Date: 12 March 2010 Origin: Howard Thomson <[email protected]> Status: Initial concept What: An interactive configuration builder, and editor, with built-in semantic consistency checking, with help system, and [eventual] scp facilities. Why: A GUI configuration program will be needed to expand Bacula's target audience to the [great-unwashed...] masses, and will be helpful to those, like myself, that prefer to have direct access to the available options rather than consulting the Manual [or my erratic memory], and also prefer instant semantic checking against Bacula startup failure due to erroneous configuration. Notes: Such a program would be built to function as a non-interactive syntax/semantic checker, in addition to its GUI facilities. Any comments welcome ... Item numbers are a continuation from the current 'git' repo. Regards Howard Thomson -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
