I've built up quite a list of features I could really use...
* prioritization (the ERP system gets top priority every 24 hours, no matter
how many hosts are further past-due)
* exclusive groups (don't back up more than one host in group "virtual host 1"
at a time)
* profiles (this is a Windows machine, use these defaults instead of the global
defaults, and profiles can apply to groups)
* additive/subtractive include/exclude (instead of overriding the global
exclude list, modify it, so that changes to the global get inherited)
* notes (ability to add notes to host entries in the web interface)
I've seriously considered hacking on BackupPC myself. Seeing that development
on the current version is stalled and "substantial rewrites" tend to be
still-born in my experience, I become more and more inclined to do that.
On 01/16/2013 02:32 PM, backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org wrote:
> Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 10:19:52 +0100 on Wednesday, January 16,
> 2013:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I was recently asked by some coworkers during a backuppc presentation
> > for some usefull functionalities missing in the current stable release.
> > Those requests are :
> > - managing roles for the users connected to the web UI and assigning
> > clients to a group so that users belonging to a role are able to operate
> > only on some of the clients
> > - being able to see the size of a directory in the web UI when browsing
> > a client's backups.
> >
> > What do you think about it, does it sound feasable ?
>
> Not a question of technical feasibility but rather a question about
> the state of active development
>
> No further development is occurring on 3.x. The last release was a
> bug fix release a few years back.
>
> The lead (and sole) developer was reportedly working on a substantial
> re-write on a 4.x tree; however, the last communication from him on
> this topic was almost 2 years ago and he has rarely even participated
> in general on the list since then. So, not clear that there is any
> active development going on now. Of course, for all we know, he could
> be plowing ahead in silence...
>
> So, I guess unless you are planning on adding such changes, it is most
> unlikely to happen anytime soon if at all. If you do implement it,
> there really isn't any established process now for merging your
> additions into new releases.
>
>
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