Re: tarsnap gui: call for testers

[Stuart Turner <stuart@turneronline.org>]

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I'm just now starting out using Tarsnap, so I'd be very much willing
to help test this!
On 10/04/2014 10:10, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> 
> It would be neat if someone were to test that program now.
> 
> The program is intended for people who haven't used tarsnap before.
> I think. I'm a bit uncertain whether there should be much guidance
> to take people from zero to having made a backup. I suspect that
> tarsnap's current audience prefers a more sparse/curt/functional
> approach. So that's what's there now.
> 
> When you test the GUI, please pretend that you're you and that
> you're just about to make your first tarsnap backup. Send me
> comments on that basis.
> 
> To test, first install Qt (any recent version will do), then:
> 
> git clone https://github.com/arnt/tarsnap-gui.git cd tarsnap-gui 
> qmake make
> 
> If you want to wipe your state to test from scratch again, run rm
> -rf ~/.config/Tarsnap.
> 
> There is one known bug. I think it's in tarsnap, and have sent
> Colin a suggested patch: If you want to back up a particular
> directory (say /home/arnt) but not the directory /home/arnt/build,
> then the program does roughly
> 
> cd /home/arnt tarsnap -c ... --exclude build .
> 
> That excludes /home/arnt/build, but it also excludes 
> /home/arnt/mumble/build, which is perhaps what I intended. I
> consider this problem serious, since it results in missed backups.
> (Backing up too much is giving Colin too much money, which is not a
> serious bug. Backing up too little is perhaps much, much worse.)
> 
> Arnt
> 

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