Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 10:11:37 -0600 on Tuesday, December 30, 
2008:
 > On 12/29 08:54 , Jon Craig wrote:
 > > The POC work I did on a FUSE interface for BackupPC never got to a
 > > point that was useful / releasable.  What I quickly identified was
 > > that there were two approaches to doing a FUSE interface.  The first
 > > was an interface that provided a fileystem layout over top of BackupPC
 > > (which is what I did) to provide fileystem type access to the backup
 > > catalog via BackupPC API.
 > 
 > Could you explain what this offers over the existing setup? It seems pretty
 > simple to me, to go to
 > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>/<backupnumber>/fpath/fto/ffile.
 > 
 > Tho obviously there's some room for improvement. :)
 > 
 > - Automatic uncompression of compressed files?
 > - Correct ownership/permissons of files? 
 > - More 'normal' paths to the files (i.e. no 'f' at the beginning of the
 >   words)?
 > - Dates as well as backup numbers?
 > 

Well Fuse would do all the above (which would be VERY helpful for
browsing backups) PLUS fill in the missing files for
incrementals. Also you would have the ability to literally just mount
a backup and get a snapshot of the backed-up filesystem.

Personally, I much prefer a filesystem CLI interface then a web-based
GUI which I find to be both slow and crippled since I can't use my
stock unix commands to do what I want.

The web GUI is good for newbies and also good for a quick status check
but otherwise I find it way too slow and limiting.

 > I'm curious what you did with this. I might find such a thing convenient
 > every now and then.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Carl Soderstrom
 > Systems Administrator
 > Real-Time Enterprises
 > www.real-time.com
 > 
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