[Pybackpack] pybackpack thoughts and future

[Andrew Price]

Hi Seth,

On 22/08/07 08:56, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 01:00 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> First, the interface for adding files to any given backup is pretty good
>> and straightforward. I wonder if it would be possible to make pybackpack
>> a destination in nautius send-to? So I could right-click on any dir or
>> file select send-to, pybackpack/some-backup-name and have that dir added
>> to that pybackpack backup collection.
> 
> okay - so I was curious so I played with nautilus-python and pybackpack
> a bit and I came up with this as a first-dash solution:
> 
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/pybackpack-nautilus.py

This looks really good. The direction pybackpack is moving in at the
moment is to be desktop-environment-agnostic so I'm trying to remove
GNOME dependencies from the core program but extensions like this,
distributed separately, would be a great addition.

I've had a quick play with it and it looks good. It probably shouldn't
list the "home" backup set though because that's treated as a special
case by pybackpack.

Do let me know if any changes can be made to pybackpack to make it
easier to extend like this. Python being Python, it shouldn't be too
hard to rejig pybackpack to offer APIs for plugging in backup modules
(e.g. a module using duplicity) etc.

Regards,

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Andy Price
http://andrewprice.me.uk