Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 254125
backup location selection lacks network as an option
Last modified: 2008-06-16 23:02:08 EDT
Description of problem: It would be useful to be able to select a network location from the gui in the same way that I can when browsing around the gnome desktop in general, as I would like to backup to a different computer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.43.1-2 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load fwbackups 2.Look through interface for backup location across network shares 3.fail Actual results: none Expected results: the above mentioned option Additional info: this is more of a feature request, unless I am just totally missing something
I'm working on this feature for 1.43.2, I should be able to release it soon but I need to solve a bug where fwbackups gets killed by SIGABRT first...
I have released fwbackups 1.43.2beta1 which you can obtain here: http://www.diffingo.com/content/view/43/57/lang,en/ It is not an official package that's being pushed into the Fedora repos, but it is usable until 1.43.2 becomes stable enough to push.
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Just to keep you updated, I'm about to release RC2 and I've found it to be stable enough that I'll release it as an update to the Fedora repos. It fixed a few bugs that were present with the network backup in beta3 and rc1.
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Just to let you know, I haven't updated the Fedora 7 version (due to the end of life was near) but in Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 you can download the 1.43.2rc2 from updates-testing which includes a network backup option.