Re: tarsnap gui: call for testers

[Stuart Turner <stuart@turneronline.org>]

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Well, I've just tried it on OS X 10.9 and it seemed to go well.  I'm a
complete newbie to Tarnap, but I was able to create a backup within a
couple of minutes!

On 10/04/2014 11:06, Stuart Turner wrote:
> 
> 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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