Fwd: HomeUserBackup Feature Specification

[John Nilsson]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:14 +0100, Sivan Green wrote:
> On 06:27, Sun 04 Dec 05, John Nilsson wrote:
> > > You can restore a backup from one system on another.
> > 
> > Can I restore a backup on a system with an existing evolution
> > installation without destroying the addressbook and/or already existing
> > mails?
> > 
> 
> If you check my feature specification at [1], you might
> notice there that the approach me and Ian Jackson have
> followed, is make restore as less intrusive as possible:
> 
> ".. We will have another screen between window 2 and
>  window 3, that will allow a user to restore his data
>  into and alternative location. The use case and
>  rationale behind providing such and option is a user,
>  who looses one file (knowing the file name). In the
>  intent to get to that file, he doesn't want to
>  overwrite the current state of his personal data but
>  rather cherry-pick what ever he sees fit for him,
>  from the alternative location to which data was
>  restored."
> 
> Would you say this covers your mentioned use case as well?

Kind of, I'm not sure I'll be able to figure out how to actually import
the data into evolution... I tried once to import an evolution file
through evolutions import feature. It didn't recognize it.

It's just so unnerving to move files around and hope that the
application will swallow it. What if it won't? Then the backup is
worthless.

Regards,
John