[mbackup-devel] code rewrite

[James O'K. <jo...@mi...>]

I've just checked in some code that people might be interested in. I added
a control module which makes decisions on if we should do a backup or a
restore. In the client version, it's fairly basic, but it could be
expanded to allow it to be a scheduler, or run as a client deamon, and the
server could push restores to it. Very cool if done right.

I also rewrote plain_reader.c. It now creates a linked list of all the
files to be backed up as a first step. This list is better formatted for
what the tar module is looking for, but I think it still needs some more
tweeks. With this change, I'm going to share code between plain_reader.c
and plain_writer.c since they are counterparts to each other. This will
almost finish the work to allow restores.

I'm planning another release and announcement once that is done, so if you
have any code or patches send them to me soon.

-james