-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Fabre wrote: > Guys > > We're looking at utilising BackupPC as a platform on which to host > backups of our customer sites, providing those customers with a level of > self-management. > > Two things are necessary to achieve this; > 1. Each restore action should notify our accounts dep't so that > excessive numbers of restores can be invoiced to the customer.
You will probably just want to log the restores to a log file, then you can run some billing process at the end of the day/week/month/etc... > 2. Excessively large individual restores should be halted prior to going > over our metered Internet link. Instead an email should be sent to our > backup-admin (and to the customer) so that a CD/DVD can be burned (or > USB-HDD, whatever) and couriered to the customer. I don't think you should be providing this type of service over a metered upload connection .... If the customer has a fast connection, they may well expect to be able to restore "large" amounts of data directly.... and a dvd/etc is going to be much slower than a download... > Presumably BackupPC doesn't currently do this but how feasible would it > be to build this in (or create a plug-in)? You could certainly modify the perl scripts to check the size of a restore before submitting it to backuppc, but that may cause other issues (ie, you don't know the size of the restore until it is completed). > We've got perl developers here who are probably capable of coding this > but we may instead consider funding a developer who is experienced in > the BackupPC codebase. One problem you would likely have (I am not speaking on behalf of any of the developers/etc) is that any solution is going to be specific to your implementation. Even if someone else decided to implement a backuppc based service then they would likely need different features added. ie, for me, we don't pay for restore data (we only pay for downloads), so we are more concerned about the amount of data being transferred during a backup and of course, the amount of data being stored on our system... Also, be aware that any solution whether developed in-house or externally, will need to be easily maintained as new versions of backuppc are released (Sooner or later you will want to be able to upgrade, for new features, bug fixes, or security fixes... Oh, and I would be interested in hearing whether people are using backuppc for the basis of a commercial service, and/or what customisation they did to it. Especially how they deal with backing up windows systems behind a firewall... Just my comments .... Hope it helps... Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIt4MrGyoxogrTyiURApFpAKCG4NO6otKUNL2Q1r5FE+5gdh0AKACfeUZQ +7KHDruZnJAU81Rqc0uLHVE= =/s4I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
