Les Mikesell wrote at about 22:34:04 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009:
 > Steve wrote:
 > > I am not a programmer, just a dumb user that thinks the whole thing is
 > > kinda magic.  So perhaps this is a stupid question.  But since
 > > BackupPc somehow knows where all the files are and what is linked to
 > > what etc. why can't there be a button in the CGI interface that
 > > instead of "restore", says something like, "as of the last inc or
 > > whatever, make a perfect copy of what i want over here" and just let
 > > that replicate the pc directories and pool and everything over to the
 > > backup, offsite, or external drive?
 > 
 > The problem is that there is no good mechanism to find the "other" names 
 >   that are hardlinked together.  Normally you don't need to know - 
 > except when you are trying to copy the whole thing maintaining 
 > consistency.  The not-so-good way to do it is to build a table of names 
 > and inode numbers for the whole tree and link the names with matching 
 > inodes as they are copied.  As you may have noticed, this doesn't scale 
 > very well.

This is why I like the idea of prepending/appending the pool file hash
name to the pool file. Then it does scale well since you don't need to
create and search a long table.

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