[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2007 05:35:48 PM: > You might consider doing a little Perl script rather than shell for the > formatting script. At least that way, you can launch the format command > as a pipe, read its output (the 11/25000 followed by a bunch of ^H > characters to back up over itself), parse it, then output something more > meaningful for a web page, like a bar of stars or somesuch.
That's true. I don't know perl, but I could do it with python... Interesting thought, thank you. > Adding new functions to the BackupPC interface isn't very hard. That part I've already done, but I cheated: I just used config.pl to add the two items as a link. Works plenty well enough for me, and I don't have to maintain any BackupPC-provided HTML files. > As for the advisability of formatting from a web page... Let's just say > you have a lot of trust in your users. :-) The drive they're formatting is *not* the drive that the BackupPC pool is stored on. My BackupPC servers have two hard drives: hda has two partitions, one for root and one for the BackupPC pool. hdc is mounted in a removable IDE tray. I have a cron job that performs an archive to this drive daily. This is how I handle off-site storage of backup data. So there's little harm if a malicious user formats this drive. All that's lost is an archive job, which the user can re-run from the GUI. Also, the link requires authentication by Apache, and is as secure as anything else in the BackupPC GUI. Frankly, I would be *much* more worried about users browsing the backup data than them formatting the removable drive... And it's less trust in users and more the fact that if it isn't a GUI, there are some users who just won't learn how to do it... Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
