Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for rdiff-backup - Later as Wiki-Entry - Request for comments now

[Curtis Osterhoudt]

  I've tried, at one time or another, all of the GUIs listed below. Most, for 
lack of my understanding, were (at the time of my trying them) pretty rough.
   The ones I'm using now are:

          * rdiffWeb -- I haven't really worked out exactly how to consistently 
stay logged on, or have it remember user settings and so on. However, it's very 
nice to be able to browse all files (and versions of files) which have been 
backed up. In my opinion, this is the option I'd most like to see in a good 
interface to rdiff-backup.

          * Keep -- Runs consistently and reliably. There is still present a 
"one-hour-trigger" bug, wherein some of the directories are backed up every 
hour, even though this isn't explicitly an option to the program (and the user 
has selected backups every day, say). It's easily scheduleable, so that I use 
it to do automated nightly or thrice-nightly backups of my emails and things I 
work on a lot.

   I do my total-system backups using the command-line interface, perhaps once 
weekly, and it works wonderfully (plus, I don't like to keep my local storage 
systems on and mounted when I'm not using them, as I'd have to do for an 
automated setup). 

                Best wishes, 
                                         C.O.


On Tuesday 06 January 2009 04:58:00 Oliver Mulatz wrote:
> 
> Hi *,
> 
> most will use rdiff-backup via commandline, but some users don't feel
> comfortable with/are used to graphical interfaces, so the below list might 
> help.
> 
> Especially pyBackPack looks interesting, although it is not found in a
> Google-search for "rdiff-backup GUI".
> 
> ## pyBackPack - sponsored 2005 Google Summer of Code project ##
> 
> ## PythonGTK2+ GUI for RDB ##
> http://andrewprice.me.uk/projects/pybackpack/
> http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack/
> http://andrewprice.me.uk/weblog/all/pybackpack
> 
> Should work in CygWin under windows, too:
> http://lists.sucs.org/pipermail/pybackpack/2007-May/000033.html
> 
> A graphical backup utility based on rdiff-backup.
> The latest version is 0.5.6, released on September 25 2008.
> ----
> 
> ## FlyBack ##
> http://code.google.com/p/flyback/
> http://code.google.com/p/flyback/downloads/list
> + PyGTK, so mostly cross-platform
> - only several releases in Nov 2007
> 
> ## rdiffweb ##
> http://www.rdiffweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
> + requires only Python, PySQLite, CherryPy (for local webserver)
> 
> ## rdiffbackupweb ##
> http://rdiffbackupweb.sourceforge.net/
> - requires php + mysql backend
> 
> ## Keep ##
> - only working in Linux KDE:
> http://jr.falleri.free.fr/keep/wiki/Home
> http://jr.falleri.free.fr/keep/wiki/Screenshots
> 
> ---
> 
> If I have forgotten other working + maintained GUIs, please post to the list,
> so I can create a RDB Wiki-Page for GUIs. Since I do not require a GUI,
> I haven't tested any of the above, so feedback on this is also welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Oliver
> 
> 
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