DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: backup on the web
That would be the other missing piece of the puzzle.
Mr. Slax developer doesn't mind hosting a few THOUSAND user settings files at 8MB per user.
Good luck getting someone here to ante up for that storage + bandwidth. A white knight could appear and help out but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
But this (Roberts) approach works fine if you have your own personal (limited) web/ftp space and the server is not MSFTP.
In my case, I have 10MB available with my cable service but most of it is taken up by baby pictures which leaves me SOL unless I buy some space elsewhere.
That's why I was asking about gmail or similar, could even set up one account for all DSL users to use, 1GB (or is it more now?), say a 2MB limit per person, gives 500 users the ability to backup settings and plugins to the web.
Not sure about the issue of gmail etc changing their login/collection methods - there are plenty of POP email systems that claim to be able to setup to get your hotmail / et al, so I'm thinking this would restrict any changes these webmail systems could make, as they now have third-party software relying on their current login/collection systems. Of course, they could just say "stuff you" and go ahead and change anyway...
gmailfs or even the ftp proxy uses libgmail which requires python which is too big for inclusion in the base iso.
Unless someone wants to translate libgmail to something we support locally...
There are plenty of free webhosting with ftp access.
I found another one which gives 20MB free and I was able to ftp 14.5MB backup single file.
We will see if they kick me off. But so far... so good!
I see many more free webhosts restrict single file size to 1MB or don't allow true ftp.
how to backup entire /home/dsl directory? How to setup the .netrc file?
The .netrc file is auto created when running the webdata script and then destroyed upon completion. This is for security reasons and also not to interfere with the use of the ftp gui program that you may need for other servers or uses.
I don't think it would make sense to backup the entire home/dsl as the purpose is to allow you to move from machine to machine and have access to the data that would be machine independent.
But as always, I give you the flexibility to do whatever you want. Just edit the webdata.lst file it is the same format and concept as the filetool.lst file. If you are not familiar with the filetool.lst then I would strongly suggest to learn and practice on that first. You can read about it in the Getting Started guide.
There is an old saying, "I give you enough rope that if you want to hang yourself. You can!"
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