On 12/30 11:39 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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.

That makes sense. 
Is your code in a usable state?

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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