Has anybody automated the access to older versions of files?
I'm envisioning a self-service tool for users to gain read-only access
to past versions of their rdiff-backup files, or maybe even to linux
package distribution repositories at particular time snapshots where all
the packages are in sync with each other (a problem that occasionally
occurs on the Mandrake Cooker repositories). This method would save
enormous disk space and would allow users to go back in time when need be.
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.
-Joseph William Baker (Joe Baker)
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.
Burlington, Wisconsin, USA
