hello,

aahhaah the world is not infinite and my resources (hardware/brain)
neither  :(

Can we implement such feature

I'm thinking to put quota on my user, telling them how much data they
can backup. To do this, the backup will proceed like:

   1 - first do a disk usage (DU) with the exclude path
   2 - if not bigger than the quota, start the backup.
   3 - else
   3.1 - send an email to the person and ask it to remove some folder or
some file extension to make his saving data smaller
   3.2  - the user launch a DU java WebStart application (GUI) to help
him to easily calculate the size of what backuppc lets him to backup
   3.3 - when done, the DU application talk with backuppc to let know it
about the new configuration and the new size of the data to be saved
   3.4 - backuppc start the backup


The java application should do something like jDiskReport or JDU or ...
   - calculate the DU and display it
   - able to see the tree to backup
   - set/unset directories to exclude from.
   - display a small panel of file extensions to remove (.jpg, .mp3 ...)
   - able to provide as line command options the exclude directories and
the file extensions directories)
   - talk back to the backuppc server the data (exclude directories,
exclude file extensions, disk usage)
   - launch the application as a GUI when launch in 3.2
   - launch the application with no GUI when launch in 1


What do you think about such idea.

cEd


-- 

Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It is the best place to buy or sell services for
just about anything Open Source.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/