On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > A good approach to that would be using software which prepares an alternate > presentation of the repository, such as archfs, > http://code.google.com/p/archfs/ or one of the Web front ends: > http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/GraphicalUserInterfaces
Neat - I got archfs installed on my linux server ... seems to do exactly what I had before! Neat! (Though, I can't view the mounted fuse volume through netatalk [afp] on my mac -- I'm sure that's a fuse/netatalk issue though ... I may see if archfs will work with macfuse.) I will also check out some of the web stuff -- thanks! It usually figures that any idea I have had, someone has had before and done a better job at implementing. > The reason it hasn't been implemented is that it would require either > figuring out how much space is needed beforehand (which requires scanning > the whole source repository in advance, something which rdiff-backup is > currently not setup for; however implementing that functionality would allow > various other requested features to be developed), or rdiff-backup would > have to detect that out-of-disk-space event, reverse the current session, > delete an increment, and start over (that, of course, hits a horrible case > when the current backup wants to add a, say, 40GB file, and deleting each > increment only frees a few MB or so). Yea - I can see how it would be challenging -- I wasn't sure if maybe rdiff calculated the changes prior to doing the backup ... if that was the case, i thought maybe it would be easy to implement something in-between the calculation and the start of the backup. Thanks for your responses. Damon > > > You might want to checkout the Wiki, particularly SuggestedFeatures, > TipsAndTricks, and ContribSripts. > > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
