Description of problem: I think I'm going to like fwbackups, but there are a couple of interface issues that make it less comfortable than it could be, at least for first uses: (1) When you start a restore from a Backup Set, there is an abort button (whatever it was called), but it is disabled (greyed). Killing the window, does not stop the restore. (2) When you then try to exit the "Administrator", it says operations are in progress, asks "Would you like to cancel them and quit anyways?". I say yes, but it neither cancels, nor closes. (3) It would be nice to be able to select specific files from the backup to be restored, rather than have to restore the entire (huge) set. [Perhaps if I had set the destination directory correctly, it would have noticed most files were the same and would have been faster.... Of course, if I had been able to abort....] (4) Both restore and backup would be more reassuring if they showed what they were doing (eg. what files/directories they were working on). At least, when the gui is onscreen... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.43.2-3
I'm working on #1, hopefully fixed in the next few days. #2 is a problem because of #1, once canceling is supported then it will close itself properly. #3/#4 are a bit more tough to do since fwbackups (at the moment) doesn't do the actual restoring, but rather wraps calls to rsync and tar. I'm in the works of writing a new C++ branch which will do the restoring and backing up internally, so it will be much faster and some features can be more tightly integrated but because of time limitations, I doubt it will be ready for another year or so.
fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc9
fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update fwbackups'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-2936
fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fwbackups'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-2972
fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fwbackups-1.43.3-0.1.rc1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.