[Box Backup] bbackupquery feature requests

[Ben Summers]

On 5 May 2004, at 04:35, Imran wrote:

> Three features, they might be already slated for release or already 
> discussed.
>
> First, some type of a info command that gives you the files updated 
> from a
> certain date+time to a certain date/time, or a certain date+time to 
> now, or
> files uploaded from beginning till a certain date+time.
[snip]

This is possible. How about a command which you select "delete", "old", 
or "both" and a date range, and it lists the files which have those 
flags and a modification time within than range.

However, this would be the modification time of the file, not the time 
that it's status was moved to old or deleted as the times of status 
changes aren't recorded at the moment. Is this a big problem? Would it 
be a good idea to do so? (It would mean a little more storage used on 
the server for directories.)


> Second, restore command, i want to be able to restore (individual 
> files, dirs,
> etc.) from a certain date/time.
[snip]
> Third, some status command that will tell me what is the earliest date 
> for
> which it has a full complete backup.
[snip]

These should be handled by the mark sets feature I plan. This will 
allow you to mark the current state of the store as a "set", and then 
restore and query against it in the future. Your suggestion of having a 
"complete" flag is sensible and easy to implement, so I've added this 
to my list.

Ben