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[Tim Soderstrom <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've made more progress with it. It now supports remote sync (SSH, 
rsync) as well as some one-file-system and bandwidth-limit options. 
Those are basically -- style flags I've exposed as a specific config 
option. As I recall the idea was to sort of move away from that in 
future plugins and, instead letting users specifying their own flags in 
a more free-flow method? I think I'd want to have that for some obscure 
flags but some of the more useful ones I think I like having as a 
specific option. I find it makes things easier to read? But I dunno.

Currently lacking is the ability to specify a custom port. Having 
trouble with Python wanting to do things like this:

###
Executing: rsync -avx --link-dest=/var/spool/holland/ssh/20150915_175342 
--exclude=Private --exclude=.cache --exclude=Steam 
--exclude=.thunderbird --exclude=.mozilla "--rsh='ssh \-p" --bwlimit=1k 
--one-file-system filedawg.moocow.home://home/tim/tmp 
/var/spool/holland/ssh/20150915_175354
###

I tried quite a few ways to avoid quotes being added. It seems to not 
like when I add the - in -p and I'm not sure how to disable that.

Otherwise, while I haven't been doing an exhaustive test of all 
combinations but things seem to be working ok, save for testing the SSH 
method. It should work, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. The 
rsync method (whether authenticated or anonymous) does seem to work 
however. I'd like to have a way to test things in a more automated away 
but it could get somewhat complicated.

I've also added the provider and default backup configs with some docs, 
save for the extended options since I'm not sure if I'll keep those yet.

Tim

On 09/14/2015 06:29 PM, Tim Soderstrom wrote:
> It's still pretty bare but I've setup a basic rsync plugin which 
> supports hardlinking. I had to do some interesting things in regards 
> to looking at previous backup-sets and could use some feedback if 
> anyone wants to take a look:
>
> https://github.com/m00dawg/holland/tree/master/plugins/holland.backup.rsync 
>
>
> Hardlinking seems to work - it basically sets --link-dest to the 
> previous backup set if it exsts and if hardlinking is enabled.
>
> Hideously lacking is the ability to setup exclusions, and I'm not sure 
> if I should just offer flags/extended_flags options or be nice and 
> make certain features explicit (such as --one-file-system). Also not 
> sure if I should support --exclude-file= or just use the --exclude 
> flag and iterate over a list (similar to how mysqldump works as I 
> recall). I should also probably support remote sources (I don't have a 
> need for that in my case but I'm sure lots of folks would).
>
> Tim
>
>
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