[Box Backup] BoxBackup Server Side Management Specs (Draft0.01)

[richard_eigenmann]

The following comes to mind when thinking about group backups:

Consider the situation where we have a department with say 10 workstations
that we would like to have a full backup of from the root of each machine's
filesystem (assume a version of a widely used operating system). The
directories will be filled for large parts with bloatware that can be found
on most other machines albeit in different locations. Theoretically it would
be sufficient to back up all this stuff just once but allow restore to each
client that held the file at the time in question.

If we implemented such a kind of "backup recognition" algorythm this could
speed up backups of remote laptops as perhaps the documents the laptop user
has been working on have already been backed up from users back at the base.

I imagine this sort of feature could save somewhere between 0.5 and 5 GB per
workstation that is doing a full backup. This could be significant to the
scalability of the boxbackup.

Of course this sort of thing probably would lead to massive redevelopment of
code and should only be undertaken if there is a very strong demand. I for
one don't need it.

Regards,
Richard