On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed - working on [backups] right now.
Great. What approach are you taking (new thread, perhaps ?)
At this stage, I am slowly hacking on ds-backup.py. My plan so far is to
- Simplify ds-backup to
- do a simple check of protocol availability against the server
- dump *all* the metadata
- rsync all files metadata (instead of pre-computed lists)
- Control guest users with rssh or similar on the XS
- On rsync completion, make a hardlinked snapshot on the XS
- Expire old hardlinked snapshots - reduce granularity of snapshots
past age N, and completely remove snapshots older than M.
Planned restore mechanisms:
- Full restore of user data, triggered from a web UI request
- Journal can browse the XS via sftp
- Web-based bundle restores
cheers,
m
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