Hello again!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aigars Mahinovs</b> <<a href="mailto:aigarius@gmail.com">aigarius@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/3/05, Sandis Neilands <<a href="mailto:sandisn@gmail.com">sandisn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Few suggestions:<br>> 1. In case of manual backups, backgrounding process is bad idea. What if it<br>> fails? And even if it won't, i'd like to know, what it is doing and when
<br>> will it finish. I can't easily cancel it eihter. Backgrounding should be<br>> optional not default.<br><br>How about this - the backup process it self is in the back ground, but<br>its progress is shown by a panel applet with optional window with a
<br>bit more progress info. They could communicate via dbus or a pipe.</blockquote><div>Sounds ok. Don't forget to include cancel button.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 2. Stephen Hemminger mentioned already that restore is more important than<br>
> backup itself. Sbackup is only usable in gnome, but what if user runs kde?<br>> And lack of CLI is really important, since sbackup is not usable in rescue<br>> mode (in case x or gnome is broken OR machine is server OR machine is
<br>> administrated via ssh, etc.)<br><br>There is a CLI tool srestore.py which is also a Python library<br>providing a Python class where all the restore funcionality actually<br>is implemented. The graphical version only calls that library for
<br>restore.</blockquote><div>I
guess I should read man pages more carefuly :) However in the
DESCRIPTION field you shouldn't claim, that "Simple Backup Suite is a
set of programs that allow to do simple and complex backups with GUI
tools only." Also you should mention /etc/sbackup.conf somewhere in
manual.<br>
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</div>-- <br>Sandis