[Box Backup-dev] Self-introduction

[Stewart Adam]

On 7/23/09 5:57 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
Hi Chris,

Thanks for the fast response!

>> * 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.
This is what I was hoping could be worked around... For example, by avoiding 
the server altogether and adding support for local destinations into the 
client the average user will be able to backup data to a USB key or another 
folder much easier than setting up a server, client account and managing 
certificates just to get some files copied.

>> * 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.
I'm not sure how large a change this would be, but it would be good to have 
it working on the same port. A typical user case would be I want to backup 
data on my 3 machines to the same server using my account, or say my bother, 
sister and I all have different accounts on the server but use the same 
computer (so 3 daemons need to share 1 port).

>> * 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.
If I understand correctly, a daemon needs to be started for each 
configuration file?

>> Would this something something that the development team is interested
>> in collaborating on?
>
> Yes.
>
> Cheers, Chris.

Excellent! I'm looking forward to helping work on box backup. In order to 
get myself familiar with the code are there any small tasks I can start by 
working on?

Regards,
Stewart