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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
