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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