Re: [rdiff-backup-users] The rdiff-backup poll!

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Dean,

> why wouldn't you just spawn the rdiff-backup program?  otherwise you'd 
> be dependent on the internal apis remaining stable... which doesn't seem 
> like a good choice for your gui or for rdiff-backup development...

Well, I'm assuming that sooner or later rdiff-backup will have some kind 
of stable API that I can use. Also, the compiler (and python bytecode 
interpreter) will check that I'm using the correct API and give me a 
warning if not. Trying to parse the output of a process is a nightmare 
that I really don't want to get involved with (again).

> progress meters kind of depend on knowing how much there is to be done,
> and rdiff-backup doesn't know that initially at least... because it starts
> transferring data even before it has scanned all the inodes needing
> backup.

Well, I guess I would have to change that :-)

> but rdiff-backup could probably be easily mod'd to have an option to 
> display how many inodes/bytes it had processed so far... just hook in 
> where the file-statistics file is written...

Yeah.

Cheers, Chris.
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