[Box Backup-dev] Self-introduction

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Stewart,

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Stewart Adam wrote:

> First of all, I wanted to mention how impressed I am with Box Backup. 
> Keep up the good work!

Thanks, and welcome to the group :)

> * A cross-platform GUI interface that could administrate backup 
> configurations and jobs or perform file restores

Have a look at Boxi.

> * Support for backups to local folders (and therefore any mounted drives) & 
> optical media

Has been discussed many times, not really hard to implement, but you can 
also just run bbstored on the same machine as bbackupd.

> * Support for multiple users on a single machine (still need to investigate 
> the possibility of running multiple non-root daemons)

Already works. They just need different ports, configuration files and 
data directories.

> * Support for multiple backup configurations per user (data can be grouped 
> and can have different settings, or be uploaded to different box backup 
> servers)

You can have as many locations and/or configuration files per user as you 
want.

> Would this something something that the development team is interested 
> in collaborating on?

Yes.

Cheers, Chris.
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