Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Web Interface

[Mark Bulson]

Mr. Evans,

You have just summed up the spirit and intent of the GPL and the hard 
work that goes behind the efforts of folks like Ben.  I was a little 
frustrated by those with the idea of charging for a front-end for rdiff 
but simply chose not to pursue it.

You have made my day!

Fondest Regards,

Mark Bulson
MUSC  - Charleston SC

David Evans wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> We've been using e-smith/march/mitel SME-Server software here for 
> years, and I installed rdiff-backup a couple of weeks ago using a 
> contrib RPM that I found on their community site (contribs.org). Well, 
> I thought it was just smashing, did up a cron job to connect to samba 
> shares on the network and backup other servers, and then got to 
> thinking about how this could be done on a web interface. So I hacked 
> together a dirty little PHP script that stores the settings in a MySQL 
> database, and runs the backups through a perl script. It also lets 
> users browse through their backed up files and download them directly 
> through the browser. Not very pythonesque, but hey, that's just me.
>
> Now, it is at the stage where I think it might start getting useful 
> for other people, and this morning I signed up for this list in order 
> to introduce myself. While doing so, I looked through the archives and 
> saw that there is someone else who has done something similar, but 
> wants to charge for it.
>
> Now, I don't want to step on anyone's toes, and I am full sure that 
> the other script is better than mine, but I had intended to release 
> this with a GPL on the top. Does anyone have any objections?
>
> Regards
>
> David Evans
>
>
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