Is there any estimate as to when this might be implemented in an official release? It's looking like the backup API might be an extremely helpful tool for an upcoming feature in a product I'm working on and I'm trying to decide whether I should just hack up a way to use it, try to come up with a cleaner solution that might be submittable as a patch (which I don't want to do if an official implementation is well underway), or just wait for official support.
Is it likely this will be released any time soon?