Hi Andy
> Hi Cedric,
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, why wouldn't you implement
> quotas on the users data before backups?  Most systems have
> this capability already.  It'd be much simpler than trying
> get users to prioritize which things they want backed up.

I'm not really sure to very well understand what you've said. But, the 
idea developed is to tell the user:
   I can provide you a backup with a 10GB.

Then whatever you do, checking the size in the server or in the client, 
the user will have to do a disk usage (DU), to find out which 
directories or which files extensions they want to exclude.

That said, yes, I agree with you that instead of
  1 - first do a disk usage (DU) with the exclude path
you can directly start with a backup, because you do make the assumption 
that the size to be downloaded will be as higher as the last time (so no 
really need to do a DU before each time). And then it will be more 
efficient for the client that this verification occurs on the server side.


> Andy
cEd


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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland

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