Hi Andy > Hi Cedric, > > Unless I'm missing something, why wouldn't you implement > quotas on the users data before backups? Most systems have > this capability already. It'd be much simpler than trying > get users to prioritize which things they want backed up.
I'm not really sure to very well understand what you've said. But, the idea developed is to tell the user: I can provide you a backup with a 10GB. Then whatever you do, checking the size in the server or in the client, the user will have to do a disk usage (DU), to find out which directories or which files extensions they want to exclude. That said, yes, I agree with you that instead of 1 - first do a disk usage (DU) with the exclude path you can directly start with a backup, because you do make the assumption that the size to be downloaded will be as higher as the last time (so no really need to do a DU before each time). And then it will be more efficient for the client that this verification occurs on the server side. > Andy 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/
