Re: [rdiff-backup-users] On Demand Access to increments/versions via Samba or HTTP

[David Kempe]

Joe Baker wrote:
> Has anybody automated the access to older versions of files?
we have done it in a web interface, but that samba idea is really cool.


> It would be cool to have samba shares which use the "precommand" feature 
> that would run the rdiff-backup --list-increments command, then create 
> subdirectories for each increment along with a short script in each 
> directory to extract the contents of that increment.  Each time a user 
> accesses a subdirectory of this samba share, the precommand would 
> execute, extracting only one level of files & directories.

I might try it today. see what i come up with.
should just be a simple shell script that calls rdiff-backup with the 
right variables I spose... might need a samba vfs layer though.

dave