webbased restore frontend?

Hello,

In order to hack on something else than hdup, I've been thinking about
a webbased restore "thingy". It should become something that an user
can restore a file from a backup and get that file mailed to him/he,
or that it can be downloaded from some server.

Is there any interest in such a thing?

If so, here are some issues:
o authentication of user restoring, ideally you would want to map
  an .htaccess to original owner a the file. Ie. a user can only
  restore it's own files.
o load on the backupserver. Restoring is quite IO intensive
o how to actually return the file to the user
o ....

Do you people have some thoughts about this?

grtz,
--Miek

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