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Re: a gui tarsnap backup tool



On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:52:47 PM CEST, Max Danielsson wrote:
This could be a great tool to reach out to a wider market for tarsnap, more home and office users who aren't keen to twiddle the cli. That said, you might have to maintain a functional pre-compiled binary with an easy installer. My guess is that anyone who can compile a program is more than ok with setting up a backup solution that runs from a script, personally i prefer it.

Running a script using cron or other automatic scheduler is IMO the only sane approach. Humans aren't good at running backups as often and regularly as they ought to.

That's about running. How you set up the thing you run is a different question entirely. And THAT question is in my opinion something where a GUI offers a good answer.

(potentially stupid shit from a person who hasn't seen the interface yet)
You might wanna make sure that keyhandling is made clear and simple to the user (print it, store it safe, exporting, importing, etc), as it is one of the bigger obstacles compared to some other backup services that doesn't offer decent client side encryption.

Thank you for the comment. I'll ponder that.

Great initiative, especially if it can offer a no-brainer function on windows. (rather than going the cygwin route)

At some point, I suppose. I have both Windows and MacOSX.

Arnt