Charlie Brady charlieb-flexbackup-at-e-smith.com |Lists| wrote: > I don't know. Is that question relevant to this list? Are you offering to > sponsor the development of the features you find missing?
No, in fact, I'm strongly considering implementing them directly myself! :D As I wrote in my original post: > I'm tempted to take a stab at adding the meta data to the created and > backuped data and implementing -restore and -search. I've just never > used a tape backup system, only to-disk. Would anybody we willing to > test any such enhancements on a tape-drive? To business: Charlie Brady charlieb-flexbackup-at-e-smith.com |Lists| wrote: > to create such a thing, you need a considerably more > sophisticated process for creating incremental backups. I'm thinking that when creating a backup, incremental, differential or otherwise, all that needs to get stored is the full current "list of files" that currently exist on the disk within the backup set's directories. From that, after restoring either a full backup set a full+incremental+incremental or whatever, then the "list of files" from the last restored set (incremental or full) will contain exactly which files should be present. Then one can (offer to) remove the files that are not in the "list of files" or just present a list of files suggested for deletion. It should be really easy! (Well, we'll see... :D) From the posts in this thread I'm aware that this new functionality maybe shouldn't be the default. But I need it so I think I'll introduce it as optional behavior. Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help