Re: [BackupPC-users] Idea For BackupPC Improvement

[Jon F. <jlf...@be...>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jon Forrest wrote:
> 
>> One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how
>> all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding
>> this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to
>> the commercial backup products.
> 
> Don't those products all require a client side agent, at least for 
> cross-platform operation?

I think they require a client side agent for all operations.

> I think it would theoretically be possible to 
> get a target directory listing with the transfer methods that backuppc 
> supports but it wouldn't be trivial.

I've started looking at the source code for BackupPC.
Too bad there aren't more comments. There's obviously
logic to produce the directory tree listings using
existing backups as the source. All that would be
required to do what I have in mind is to have
the BackupPC transfer method do a directory listing
starting from the root directory and then somehow
massage this into something the existing display logic
can handle. This is just a simple matter of software,
right?


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