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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-04-27 11:18:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-04-27 11:18:16 -0400 |
| commit | 4381ac062fa7cec01476e84a7bd8e154efb8aacd (patch) | |
| tree | 9bcf5492d7d194bb15da1a008af1ee3d583cadc2 | |
| parent | 0d6860bb6fc02d14b3f5c773f0a2c4248463bb48 (diff) | |
| parent | 568cb52b6e55b594dd67c466464ae4a9583accb4 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'branchable/master'
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/wishlist:_special_remote_for_sftp_or_rsync.mdwn | 5 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/wishlist:_special_remote_for_sftp_or_rsync.mdwn b/doc/forum/wishlist:_special_remote_for_sftp_or_rsync.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..becfe23c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/wishlist:_special_remote_for_sftp_or_rsync.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +i think it would be useful to have a fourth kind of [[special remote]]s that connects to a dumb storage using sftp or rsync. this can be emulated by using sshfs, but that means lots of round-trips through the system and is limited to platforms where sshfs is available. + +typical use cases are backups to storate shared between a group of people where each user only has limited access (sftp or rsync), when using [[bup]] is not an option. + +an alternative to implementing yet another special remote would be to have some kind of plugin system by which external programs can provide an interface to key-value stores (i'd implement the sftp backend myself, but haven't learned haskell yet). |