Fwd: HomeUserBackup Feature Specification

[John Nilsson]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 02:53 +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> On 12/4/05, John Nilsson <john at milsson.nu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:21 +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> > > I would be very happy to hear any constructive criticism and feature
> > > suggestions as I plan to do a slight refactoring of SBackup and thus
> > > now is the best time to come up with thing that would influence the
> > > new architecture of the system.

OK, now I have actually used your software ;-), that backup has been
long overdue...

Quick impressions

* Recommended settings should include /srv
* Add file vs. Add Directory was confusing
* List with file types must be bigger, with nice icons
* Provide a list of what will and won't be included in the backup
* Calculate the storage requirements
* Progress indicator
* Pause/Resume/Abort
* killing the pid mentioned didn't stop the backup
* An interface to manage backups (delete, burn, merge)

In general I can imagine an interface like Azureus where the progress is
displayed either aggregated for the whole archive or individually for
each file.

Regards,
John