hello, aahhaah the world is not infinite and my resources (hardware/brain) neither :(
Can we implement such feature I'm thinking to put quota on my user, telling them how much data they can backup. To do this, the backup will proceed like: 1 - first do a disk usage (DU) with the exclude path 2 - if not bigger than the quota, start the backup. 3 - else 3.1 - send an email to the person and ask it to remove some folder or some file extension to make his saving data smaller 3.2 - the user launch a DU java WebStart application (GUI) to help him to easily calculate the size of what backuppc lets him to backup 3.3 - when done, the DU application talk with backuppc to let know it about the new configuration and the new size of the data to be saved 3.4 - backuppc start the backup The java application should do something like jDiskReport or JDU or ... - calculate the DU and display it - able to see the tree to backup - set/unset directories to exclude from. - display a small panel of file extensions to remove (.jpg, .mp3 ...) - able to provide as line command options the exclude directories and the file extensions directories) - talk back to the backuppc server the data (exclude directories, exclude file extensions, disk usage) - launch the application as a GUI when launch in 3.2 - launch the application with no GUI when launch in 1 What do you think about such idea. cEd -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ 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/