Aspirations

(Phase 1):

• A Service that performs tha actions to create the pool.
  • Allow re-enable the shares (If any) and perform the merging on startup.
  • Attempt to perform the necessary ACL actions.
• A Management GUI to aid in the construction and to show what the existing merging will "Look like" to the clients of the pool letter;
  • Could this be a silverlight app into the service ?
  • Some helper (Tootips etc) to make the GUI easier to use for the first time user.
  • Stop - Start service to apply the changes.
• Application Tray user application;
  • Allow user to see if there are any issues that the service may have:
    • Running out of space,
    • unable to delete,
    • Stats.
• An "Aware" Installer
  • Check the correct version Dokan Library.
  • Check correct version of .Net
  • Notify of Failure
  • Use WIX installer for this development.
• Some Test Scenarios

Phase 2:

Currently in the “Thinking stage”, so please add your suggestions.

• Refactor and make ready for Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), (or similar).
• Remove the existing “Spread” options and convert into MEF.
• Investigate the usage WPF for some / all of the Forms.
• Better examples / explanations of what is going on.
• Publish events to allow other services (Not MEF this time) to perform external actions; e.g. triggers for script engines.
• More than one spanning drive
• Extended Feedback via the tray application
• A better management app to set which folders to be automatically backed up
• External service module(s) to perform the backup / mirror / _Something else functionality
• ?

Plans

Changelog

FAQs

Aspirations phase 1 diagram:-

Credits