Testing our solution
Let's see whether our two programs play nicely together and what affects the code inside our backup
package. You may want to open two terminal windows for this, since we'll be running two programs.
We have already added some paths to the database, so let's use backup
to see them:
./backup -db="./backupdata" list
You should see the two test folders; if you don't, refer back to the Adding paths section.
= ./test [Not yet archived] = ./test2 [Not yet archived]
In another window, navigate to the backupd
folder and create our two test folders called test
and test2
.
Build backupd
using the usual method:
go build -o backupd
Assuming all is well, we can now start the backup process being sure to point the db
path to the same path as ...
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