[rdiff-backup-users] Web Interface

[David Evans]

Hi all.

We've been using e-smith/march/mitel SME-Server software here for years, 
and I installed rdiff-backup a couple of weeks ago using a contrib RPM 
that I found on their community site (contribs.org). Well, I thought it 
was just smashing, did up a cron job to connect to samba shares on the 
network and backup other servers, and then got to thinking about how 
this could be done on a web interface. So I hacked together a dirty 
little PHP script that stores the settings in a MySQL database, and runs 
the backups through a perl script. It also lets users browse through 
their backed up files and download them directly through the browser. 
Not very pythonesque, but hey, that's just me.

Now, it is at the stage where I think it might start getting useful for 
other people, and this morning I signed up for this list in order to 
introduce myself. While doing so, I looked through the archives and saw 
that there is someone else who has done something similar, but wants to 
charge for it.

Now, I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and I am full sure that the 
other script is better than mine, but I had intended to release this 
with a GPL on the top. Does anyone have any objections?

Regards

David Evans