[Server-devel] [Tecnologia] Schoolserver development in Uruguay

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Yes, this is true. Basic IPv4 setup and swapping a broken network card
> currently require too much command line wizardry. This is probably due
> to lack of time to develop a nicer interface, not a sadistic design
> choice.

You are underestimating my love of the Marquis.

:-)

I have a (good) plan for a UI-driven configuration for IPv4,
xs-swapnics and a few other "popular" needs, while keeping
cli/scriptable options.

As you say, time has not been my friend lately.

>> Incremental, or differential backups could be made if the datastore
>> treated the files differently, I'm sorry if I hurt some
>> suceptibilities, but is the truth, there's no simple way to back up
>> _just the data_ from the journal, you back it all or nothing, because
>> _part of it_ is useless.
>
> Yes, but metadata consists of very tiny files compared to actual data
> files, which is often multimedia content.

The current (0.84) datastore is very straightforward to backup and
restore. And rsync friendly.

cheers,



m
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