Re: Any interest in something like Filesystem_Backup

Keith Palmer Jr. wrote: > I was wondering if there is any interest in something along the lines of > a Filesystem_Backup class. > > > Basically the idea is a class which reads configuration files and makes > full or incremental backups of a filesystem using the parameters given > in the config file. > > The class would support things like rotating backups (store the last 7 > days of backups only), refresh backup from a tar.gz file, tar.gz an > existing filesystem, create a backup from an FTP site, etc. etc. > > > Any thoughts/interest? Do you plan to implement this purely in php ? It makes me think of rdiff-backup which uses rsync for its backend. I suppose it could be useful for shared hosts where you don't have shell acess and things like that. Arnaud.