Hi Jon,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:34:13PM -0400, Jon Craig wrote:

> I'm working on a proof-of-concept for this.  I've taken the fuse
> loopback.pl example and married it to BackupPC::View.  Right now it
> lets me mount the BackupPC store as a filesystem with a directory
> structure like:
> 
> Mountpoint: /backuppc/
> 
> /backuppc/[HOST]/[BackupNum]_[type]_[level]/[share]/ ...
> 
> so an example would be:
> 
> /backuppc/jcraig-laptop/23_full_0/root/ ...
> 
> for backup number 23, a full level 0 backup
[...]

Wow, that sounds really cool! :-)

> Once the POC version is done I'd be willing to share it out for
> comments and suggestions related to functionality/usability.  I only
> do rsyncd backups, so testing it with clients using other methods
> would be good as I don't know the implementation details for clients
> using TAR|SMB or rsync via SSH/RCMD.  

There shouldn't be any difference from your point of view - things end
up at the same location (host/backup#/share/...).

Looking forward to the POC!

Tino.

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