Re: [rdiff-backup-users] File nameing tweaks possible?

[Dominic]

Hi Chad

Wouldn't archfs meet your needs? see http://code.google.com/p/archfs/. 
It requires rdiff-backup (of course) and fuse.

You could make the archfs mountpoint into a samba share and you wouldn't 
have to mess with the diffs/increment files at all. Users could view all 
the historic files and have read-only access to them. It is magical!

Cheers

Dominic

Chad McKay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Rdiff-backup is almost exactly the tool I am looking for. With a few changes
> it would be perfect for my particular needs.  I needed to store copies of
> the increment files not diffs - so I edited the source code and got that
> working. However, I have two other tweaks I would like to make but I'm not a
> Python guy at all. I can sometimes muddle through (more perl experience) but
> I can't find in the code where I would do two things:
>
> 1.      Make the rdiff-backup-data and increments dirs readable for all
> users 
> 2.	Change the file naming convention to preserve the original extension
>
> The reason being, I'd like my users to be able to open the older versions,
> if they need to, right from a samba share. And, of course it would be much
> more convenient for them to open the file with the correct extension rather
> than renaming/copying it.  E.g. if the file was saved as:
>
> Test.2008-11-17-T17:54:21-05:00.txt  rather than:
> Test.txt.2008-11-17-T17:54:21-05:00.snapshot
>
> It would appear to the program as the correct file type and open. Then they
> could save it where they like with a new name.
>
> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for your consideration,
>
> Chad McKay