On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:13:10 -0400, David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems to me that rsync makes a great candidate for this purpose, > though there are some limitations (unless I'm just not aware of certain > command flags): > 1 - being in a library would probably be much nicer for this task, > rather than spawning a process and trying to parse it's output > 2 - Being a seperate process, there isn't the same ability to > start/stop/pause from a user interface. > 3 - Does not provide easily machine parseable output for a gui to > provide status information > > There is a librsync project at sourceforge (http://librsync.sf.net) > though it is listed as not wire compatible with the v2 rsync protocol. > It may be sufficient for this purpose however. cough rdiff-backup cough librsync based cough python based... like all good system-config tools should be :-> http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/ or if you dont want the "mirror" aspects and want a little more privacy http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ -jef"using unattended rdiff-backup cronjobs via ssh on his lan for personal data, and man oh man is it fun to wipe his rawhide test box and do a fresh install and be able to restore is whole home directory from his rdiff-backup created backed on the other machine on the lan by asking rdiff-backup to simply drop the /home as it was 2 days ago right back into place, if rdiff-backup were in Core I could problably kickstart that sort of process with obnoxious ease."spaleta
