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Re: [BackupPC-users] Status of fuse for viewing backuppc backups
2008-12-31 17:49:19
Also, FUSE is standard on many linux distros but not so standard on freebsd or solaris.... You would essentially isolate backuppc to be linux specific.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:45 PM, dan <dandenson AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
I would think that the FUSE module would cause a pretty serious performance hit consider FUSE is not well known for performance. It make good sense to have a FUSE module for viewing a pool but I think that the backup process needs to stay far away from it...
As far as using native rsync3 vs modifying File::RsyncP is a good idea but dont know how you would accomplish that outside of FUSE.On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
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?
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