Runtime Settings

This section describes the settings available from the web interface and that are editable at runtime in opposition to configuration that are defined at application startup.

Users’ repositories

A repository represents a directory where rdiff-backup has created a structure to store your data. Basically, a repository is a directory containing the rdiff-backup-data folder.

As an example, look at the following folder structure.

+ / (root)
  |
  + backups
    |
    + my-laptop
    | |
    | + rdiff-backup-data
    | |
    | + home
    |
    + server1
      |
      + rdiff-backup-data
      |
      + home
      |
      + etc
      |
      + var

It contains two (2) repositories: /backups/my-laptop/ and /backups/server1/.

Once your installation of rdiffweb is completed, go to the admin area to configure your users root directory.

For each user, you must assign a “root directory”. The user can access every repository placed underneath the “root directory”. Consider the following assignment:

• admin: /backups/

• patrik: /backups/my-laptop/

Assignment of a “root directory” is the only way to control access to repositories.

• The “admin” user will have access to “my-laptop” and “server1” repositories.

• The user “patrik” only has access to “my-laptop” repository.

Users’ roles & permissions

In the administration view, you may create a new user to give him access to Rdiffweb user interface. That would allow him to connect to Rdiffweb with a username and a password that you define. In addition, you must also assign a user’s role to this newly created user.

The following table lists permissions available for each role:

Action	User	Maintainer	Admin
Browse one of his repositories	✓	✓	✓
View Graphs, logs and status of his repositories	✓	✓	✓
Retrieve a file or a directory from one of his repositories	✓	✓	✓
Modify the encoding of one of his repositories	✓	✓	✓
Modify the encoding of one of his repositories	✓	✓	✓
Modify the notification parameters (email and delay)	✓	✓	✓
Change his password	✓	✓	✓
Adding new SSH Key	✓	✓	✓
Deleting an SSH Key		✓	✓
Delete one of his repositories		✓	✓
Delete the history of a file or folder from his repositories		✓	✓
Modify the retention period of one of his repositories		✓	✓
View system logs			✓
View system informations (ram, cpu, version, dependencies)			✓
Create new users			✓
Modify other user’s email, password and role			✓
Define other user’s quota			✓
Delete other user’s repository			✓
Delete the history of a file or folder from other users			✓
Browse other user’s repository			✓