:: Web Interface to Rsnapshot
What is Rsnapshot?
From rsnapshot.org
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How Have I Use Rsnapshot?
Recently, I installed and configured rsnapshot on one of my computers that is running linux. Since it is "always on" anyways, I figured it is the perfect backup machine. I posted articles on my blog and forum, so rather than duplicate it here I will provide you the links:
So, What's This Web Interface?
Let's say you have a handful of backups and you need to access one of those files. Currently you would either
have to log in to the backup machine and then copy the file from the correct backup to the destination machine
either through scp, ftp, rsync, or some other method; or, say if you are
on a Windows machine, connect to the backup machine using rsync for Windows or a utility such as
WinScp to copy the file down.
While this is definitely feasible, it would be nice to have a website on the backup computer (served by Apache) that
would show you the backup directory and its contents (daily.0, daily.1, etc). Then you can find the file you are looking
for and download it. An option for the future would be to select multiple files and download them as a .zip or .gz file.
This would have similar characteristics to the web interface in backuppc, although it wouldn't be as in depth.
Now of course you could just create a Virtual Directory or something in Apache, and just turn on directory browsing. Yes that's true, you could browse around, and download a file. But this Website could in the future zip multiple files up, also display logs, the config file, disk usage, etc.
So anyways, that's my idea. If you have any input for this please contact me.
