Re: gdar - a graphical user interface to brows and extract dar archives

Hi Denis,

my plan is to release version 1.0 as soon as possible.
I only want to improve stability. Then I can commit gdar
to the official package repositories of the major Linux distributions,
so that it will be easy to install gdar.
To release a new version won't be that difficult then.

Version 2.0 will be all about creating a backup.
As gdar is a GUI application the main target will be a Desktop system,
especially for those users who are not that experienced with Linux.
It shouldn't be just a GUI that provides all features of dar,
like the dar CLI but with a graphical interface. Rather then it
should guide the user though the process of creating a backup schedule
and for example manage the referencing backup when creating incremental
backups based on the schedule.
About the details I'm currently not sure and would like to get some 
other opinions:
* the backup source would be /home or /home/bob
* the backup destination should be a external HD
* full backup frequency one of yearly/quarterly/monthly/weekly/daily
* differential/incremental one of yearly/quarterly/monthly/weekly/daily
* when it's time for a backup, the user will be queried to start the process
* when should the backup be executed?
     * at the beginning (fix date, not depending on when the backup has 
been started the last time. e.g. 1th of month)
     * or after the period has expired (variable date, depending on when 
the backup has been started the last time)
* all the specific settings should only be visible in some advanced mode
* a one-click setup would be nice

I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss this,
but I'm happy on every input I can get.

Regards,
Tobias

Am 23.05.2014 21:30, schrieb Denis Corbin:
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> Hi Tobias,
>
> On 23/05/2014 17:30, Tobias wrote:
>> Hi Denis,
>>
>> thank you very much for the new dar release 2.4.13, it works
>> perfectly with gdar.
>>
>> I'm proud to announce that gdar now supports encrypted dar
>> backups!
> great job! :)
> I've tested it, first I did not noticed the checkbox and the operation
> failed because no encryption was given (of course). The error message
> did properly show, nice thing. Then I could easily find this check box
> and could provide the pass phrase to successfully open the encrypted
> archive. Very nice!
>
>> May have a look at https://peckto.github.io/gdar/ and try it
>> yourself. This was one major task on my TODO list. So the final
>> release of 1.0 will be soon.
> I don't know whether you have planed to implement archive creation for
> version 1.0, but I think it would be necessary to bring more people to
> gdar in particular those not fan of command-line interface. Having
> listing and extraction is very nice, though having also archive
> creation (just full backup in a first time) would lead you having more
> users. You may well not implement all the features, the more difficult
> in terms of GUI is, I think, the filtering mechanisms if you want to
> implement it with all its possibilities (for what I meet with
> webdar...) but you can avoid provide filtering in a first time or just
> provide a simple mechanism if you want...
>
> anyway very happy to know gdar is becoming a very easy to use and
> intuitive program over libdar, it gives sense to my work :)
>
> Thanks.
>
>> I have also improved the error handling.
>>
>> Regards, Tobias
>>
> Kind Regards,
> Denis.
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