Martin Bergner wrote: > It was a bad decision to promote hubackup (which works in most cases) > and hurestore as a main backup tool since they are not finished. I tried > to help Sivan getting hurestore to work, but didn't succed. > > Maybe someone else has a better idea, so I will create some background > information for someone to start. > > The problem with hurestore is, that you need to create an interface to > dar. > > I tried the dar python bindings, but they are unstable and also > unfinished. I have a bzr branch on lp for both the bindings (dar-python) > and hurestore (look in my branches) which uses these bindings and can > show the contents of the archive. The problem is however, that there you > cannot have any statistics about the archive (the bindings fail there > and I didn't get them to work) and that is needed at some point. > > I also tried to interface dar directly, but is this error-prone and > quite slow. The usage of appropriate bindings would be much better. > > I am willing to help anyone starting on that, but you should have some > (or better good) knowledge on python, pygtk, python bindings, swig, c++ > and (at the end) building debian packages. I think that these are a lot > of requirements for such a small tool. Of course, the swig and binding > part is optional, but preferred. Dar is written in C++, so is the > library. If you want to use (fix) the bindings you need to know that as > well. > > Contact me if you like to help. > > Martin, I would like to help but unfortunately my programming knowledge is non-existent. With regard to the above problem, I've run from the fight & am hiding behind "sbackup" which seems to work just fine.Good luck with sorting out "hurestore". Vincent
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