Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Saturday 20 February 2010 19:21:19 bigonroad wrote:
>> I now have BackupPC up and running on ubuntu 9.10. Thanks for your help
>>  guys!
>>
>> I have a couple more issues. These relate to the fact that I am trying to
>>  use backuppc to backup files, but also to provide a central up to date
>>  store of network accessible files, so, for example, media files can be
>>  viewed over the network, rather than downloaded through the web interface.
> 
> No.  Stop.  It's not going to work.
> 
> The best thing I could recommend would be to automate a restore nightly, 
> using 
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_restore, to restore to a directory on the 
> server that you can then browse.  Your script that does this could then set 
> whatever permissions you need.

Actually if he has compression turned off, it might come close.  If working 
through backuppc's web interface to the last backup does what you want, it 
would 
be fairly simple to write a script that runs nightly and instead of doing a 
restore, make your own directory (or re-arranged tree if you want) with hard 
links to the new files in the current run with un-mangled names.  This would 
(a) 
keep the files from ever expiring, and (b) give you a place that you could 
share 
over http, samba, a media server like mediatomb or ps3mediaserver, or all at 
once. And you really wouldn't have to detect new files - just try to hardlink 
anything that show up in the expected place(s).  Unlike a restore, this 
approach 
won't take much extra space.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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