Re: webbased restore frontend?

One other point to consider.

You may want to cache the tar listing some how with tar -tvzf 
Some of our backups are over 13GB and traversing the tar file itself can take
some time. 

Also, is it possible to add some new features to hdup?
at empoweringmedia.com we've begun using hdup and I've noticed some quirks that
need handling.

Quoting Miek Gieben <[email protected]>:

> 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
> 
> --
> today's fortune:
> Eat as much as you like -- just don't swallow it.
> 		-- Harry Secombe's diet
> 




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