[Cosmo-dev] adding password retrieval to cmp

[Brian Moseley]

On 8/18/06, Jared Rhine <jared at wordzoo.com> wrote:

> The model in my head for backups is "user-specific data backup + account
> info backup + user-specific data restore + account info restore = full
> backups".  Other models are possible, so let's hash this out quickly if
> you've another idea.

there seem to be two main use cases for backup/restore:

1) a user wants a full backup/export of his stored content but doesn't
want to have to write a fancy dav client to propfind and get all of
his resources and tickets;

2) an admin wants to back up all of the information for a user,
including his account profile and stored content

my current thinking is to provide explicit backup and restore cmp
operations, with the option available to admins to include account
profile info (with encrypted passwords). the content+profile would be
dumped in one big blob that could then be fed back into the restore
command. there are a lot of specific decisions to make, but that's the
basic idea. one operation for backup, one for restore, rather than
requiring a cmp op and a set of webdav ops for each task.