Re: [BackupPC-devel] BackupPCd (Client) integration into BackupPC

[Roy K. <rk...@ps...>]

Mr. Barratt,

 	Excellent.  I'll begin playing around with it this week.

Thanks,
 	Roy Keene
 	Planning Systems Inc

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Craig Barratt wrote:

> Roy Keene writes:
>
>>  	I've got the development snapshot of BackupPCd to a point where it
>> would be useful to have the BackupPC/perl portion implemented to continue
>> development.  The arguments I'm going to need are: the directory where the
>> pool is;  the directory where the last run was;  the boolean value
>> indicating whether or not the pool is compressed or not;  and the
>> directory where the new run should occur (currently it assumes ".")
>
> I checked new code into CVS that provides basic support for
> BackupPCd.  It is a new XferMethod, and the code is in
> lib/BackupPC/Xfer/BackupPCd.  There are 4 new config
> variables for specifying the share, the executable path,
> and the backup and restore commands.  The backup command
> is run and the stdout/stderr is captured and placed into
> the XferLOG file.  Code needs to be added to parse the
> output to get Xfer stats, errors and bad files.
>
> A comment about the arguments: I assume the "directory where the
> last run was" is the last full?  I haven't implemented that yet.
> Do you also need a flag for full vs incremental for the new
> backup?  We'll also need a way to get the exclude/include
> arguments passed (and we need to decide what they mean).
> We could make them the same as rsync.
>
> Anyhow, check it out and it will be easy to add additional
> features or to change the way the interface works.
>
> Craig
>