[rdiff-backup-users] Change of file names possible?

[Chad McKay]

Hi all,

 

Rdiff-backup is almost exactly the tool I am looking for. With a few changes it would be perfect for my particular needs.  I needed to store copies of the increment files not diffs – so I edited the source code and got that working. However, I have two other tweaks I would like to make but I’m not a Python guy at all. I can sometimes muddle through (more perl experience) but I can’t find in the code where I would do two things:

1.       Make the rdiff-backup-data and increments dirs readable for all users

2.       Change the file naming convention to preserve the original extension

 

The reason being, I’d like my users to be able to open the older versions if they need to right from a samba share. And, of course it would be much more convenient for them to open the file with the correct extension rather than renaming/copying it.  E.g. if the file was saved as:

 

Test.2008-11-17-T17:54:21-05:00.txt  rather than:

Test.txt. 2008-11-17-T17:54:21-05:00.snapshot

It would appear to the program as the correct file type and open. Then they could save it where they like with a new name.

 

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance for your consideration,

 

Chad McKay