[Fwd: Home User Backup Beta version available for testing from universe.]

[Lukas Sabota]

Sivan,
I will file bugs in malone and the discussion can continue there.

God bless,
Lukas

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 03:46 +0300, Sivan Green wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 20:17 -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> > Hello Sivan!
> >     Nice work on your backup program!  It's good to see a program like
> > this being contributed.  But, at your request, here are a few
> > suggestions.
> 
> I greatly appreciate the time you've taken to send this feedback.
> 
> >     First of all, my external hard drive was not detected by the backup
> > device probe.  In a backup program I would expect external hard drives
> > to be detected.
> 
> That is for sure, please let me know - what method of connectivity is
> this external hard drive using? does it connect straight to the IDE bus?
> if so , that's actually expected limitation, as hubackup currently will
> only list removable devices as seen from HAL, if your device directly
> connects to the IDE bus, then it won't get listed. This is very easy to
> tweak the code to display those devices as well, however trying to make
> it bullet proof for the unwary - we need to think how hubackup can do
> so, and avoid the accident in which someone uses it to backup to his
> local drive, and this drive breaks.
> 
> >     Another important addition would be to allow backup to a particular
> > path, rather than being limited to the "backup media".  Allowing the gtk
> > file chooser to choose a path would even allow functionality for network
> > backup, or undetected media.
> 
> Yes, this makes a lot of sense and you're not the only one who has
> requested this. Together maybe with a warning dialog "Please make sure
> this is external backup target to your PC" style this could cater as
> sort of a workaround for the first issue you've mentioned.
> 
> >     Some users will want to backup other folders besides the home folder
> > (for example:  /var/www).  Perhaps a two-paned interface of directories
> > could be added to the backup, with $HOME included by default.
> >     Your program does allow functionality for including/excluding media
> > files, which is good, but it gives no indication of what type a file is
> > a media file (Video?  Audio?  Pictures?  What formats are included?).
> > Perhaps including a tool-tip providing this information.  Even better, a
> > more powerful tool that would allow a user to specify what extensions
> > (or mime-types) to be excluded.
> 
> Agreed and noted. Please take a loot at some new UI mockup glatztor had
> done for hubackup, as we are thinking up how to improve for the dapper+1
> version [1]. For any other issues that you have wonderfully brought up,
> please kindly file them as separate bugs in malone [2] ? They deserve
> logging and treatment as full fledged bug reports :) 
> 
> >     It really looks like you have put a lot of time and effort in to
> > this piece of software, and it really shows.  I hope you take my above
> > remarks into consideration, and please reply with your remarks!  Thanks
> > again for all your work; it will really be appreciated by the ubuntu
> > user base!
> 
> Nothing could reward me more then your kind and warm words - it really
> makes you happy to see someone enjoying a piece of work you have put
> thought and effort into, to make it enjoyable by others. The least I
> could is approach with serious and thorough consideration every single
> bit of feedback and comment you may have. Let's use the fantastic
> Launchpad infrastructure to track them and work them out.
> 
> Thanks again, 
> 
> Sivan
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup/UI
> [2]: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hubackup/+filebug
> 
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