[Box Backup] Restore problems

Roy boxbackup at hostingbrothers.nl
Wed Sep 22 14:26:40 BST 2010


  Op 22-9-2010 14:25, Chris Wilson schreef:
> Hi Roy,
>
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Roy wrote:
>
>> I'm restore now, but unfortunately I cannot restore all in once, 
>> because of disk space limitations. So it takes a bit longer. But will 
>> mail afterwards the relevant log parts and comments.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
>> By doing these restores manually (per directory) I thought about two 
>> things:
>> - restore command takes store name and local name; maybe it could be 
>> easier if the local name is omitted than the store name will be used 
>> in the local directory (set with lcd)
>
> Yes, good idea, not hard to implement.
>
>> - Tab completion in bbackupquery for store names (Don't know if this 
>> was already looked into or shot down as an idea)
>
> This is much harder to implement, I started working on it but I'm very 
> new to readline and couldn't figure out how to know where in the 
> command I was, and therefore whether I should be completing local or 
> remote filenames.
Ah, didn't know that. And that would be the best implementation (both 
local and remote support). Something for the wishlist...

>
> Cheers, Chris.

Maybe it also could be nice to be able to use wildcards with get: get 
*.jpg. But don't know if that's hard to implement.

Cheers,

Roy

BTW, still restoring...



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