Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Ron Fabre wrote:
>> 1. Each restore action should notify our accounts dep't so that
>> excessive numbers of restores can be invoiced to the customer.
> 
> You can set $Conf{RestorePreUserCmd} to run a script before the  
> restore operation: 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_restorepreusercmd_

Sounds good.

>> 2. Excessively large individual restores should be halted prior to 
>> going over our metered Internet link. Instead an email should be
>> sent to our backup-admin (and to the customer) so that a CD/DVD can
>> be burned (or USB-HDD, whatever) and couriered to the customer.
>> 
>> Presumably BackupPC doesn't currently do this but how feasible
>> would it be to build this in (or create a plug-in)?
>>
>> We've got perl developers here who are probably capable of coding this
>> but we may instead consider funding a developer who is experienced in
>> the BackupPC codebase.
> 
> The pre-restore script could maybe also do this check, but I don't  
> believe the size of the restore is one of the available variables.

If one of the available variables includes the filename(s) then it'd be 
easy to check the size.

> There may be a way to find out though. Also I don't know if it's  
> possible to halt a restore job from this pre-restore script.

But if the restore can't be halted then I'm obviously in trouble. ;-)

> This is the users mailinglist, the developers are on the development  
> list I guess: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel

Yep, Thanks. I rarely go direct to the developers before asking in user 
forums or IRC channels.

cheers!
Ron
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