Les Mikesell wrote:
Rob Shepherd wrote:
i'd like to be able to quickly provide a user with access to their files
over samba, as quickly as possible.
does anybody have any thoughts on how i do this efficiently.
Set up authenticated http access with each user listed as the 'owner' of
his
Rob Shepherd wrote:
i'd like to be able to quickly provide a user with access to their files
over samba, as quickly as possible.
does anybody have any thoughts on how i do this efficiently.
Set up authenticated http access with each user listed as the 'owner' of
his own machine in your
Les Mikesell wrote:
The backups are not stored in a format suitable for direct access even
if suitable network shares and permissions could be set up. They are
compressed and all duplicates are linked together. You can still grab a
copy from anywhere through the browser.
Thanks for the
Rob Shepherd wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Forgive my ignorance, but if the files are not in a direct access
format, then how does rsync work?
rsync compares local and remote file trees before sending deltas etc.
Does the rsync perl module do some translation magic or somesuch?
I don't
Rob Shepherd wrote:
The backups are not stored in a format suitable for direct access even
if suitable network shares and permissions could be set up. They are
compressed and all duplicates are linked together. You can still grab a
copy from anywhere through the browser.
Thanks for
Does the rsync perl module do some translation magic or somesuch?
Yes, it does some serious magic to uncompress on the fly while chatting
with a stock rsync at the other end. Craig must be an insane
programming genius to have tackled a project like that in perl and
succeeded.
wow, maximum
Dear BackupPC users,
I'm about to deploy BackupPC for backing up laptops, using cygwin/rsyncd
on the clients.
I've noticed that the backup on disk is not of a form which isn't suitable
for exporting via samba directly.
i'd like to be able to quickly provide a user with access to their files
I've noticed that the backup on disk is not of a form which isn't suitable
for exporting via samba directly.
Doh, my bad with the double negative!
Please read as...
I've noticed that the backup on disk is not suitable for exporting via
samba directly.
Rob
Rob Shepherd wrote:
I'm about to deploy BackupPC for backing up laptops, using cygwin/rsyncd
on the clients.
I've noticed that the backup on disk is not of a form which isn't suitable
for exporting via samba directly.
i'd like to be able to quickly provide a user with access to their
