Re: Any interest in something like Filesystem_Backup

Yeah, it's something like rdiff-backup from the quick description I read on the rdiff-backup website. And yes, pure PHP. Probably not as robust as rdiff-backup to start though. - Keith Arnaud Limbourg wrote:

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.